"Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person's mind."

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Banana Yoshimoto

#Tea Quotes #Mind Quotes #Enough Quotes

“I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy.”
“The Olympics are every four years and I think every athlete who competes in the Olympics wants the gold medal, and I think that's what the World Cup is for a rugby player - it's the gold medal.”
“I took a deep breath. 'For you I've got something better than love.' What's that?' I...trust you.' Why?' You'll never hurt me.' Thank you.' But...' But, what?' I said, 'That means I'll hurt you.' Why?' 'Cause, like I said, you'll never hurt me back.”
“The election of Hoover...should result in continued prosperity for 1929.”
“It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.”
“He was right â€“ she was beating herself up about hurting his feelings. The girl was a classic martyr. Sheâ€™d totally been born in the wrong century. She should have lived back when she could have gotten herself fed to some lions for a good cause.”
“The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.”

Source : Ludwig Feuerbach (1972). “The Fiery Brook: Selected Writings of Ludwig Feuerbach”, Anchor
“You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear? 'I love you' is always a quotation. You did not say it first and neither did I, yet when you say it and when I say it we speak like savages who have found three words and worship them. I did worship them but now I am alone on a rock hewn out of my own body.”

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