"Oh, no! my heart can never be Again in lightest hopes the same; The love that lingers there for thee Hath more of ashes than of flame."

-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Heart Quotes #Flames Quotes #Ashes Quotes

“When I do get time, I like to hike and I take lots of vitamins and powders to keep healthy.”
“The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all.”
“In crime the egoist has hitherto asserted himself and mocked at the sacred; the break with the sacred, or rather of the sacred, may become general. A revolution never returns, but an immense, reckless, shameless, conscienceless, proudâ€”crime, doesn't it rumble in the distant thunder, and don't you see how the sky grows ominously silent and gloomy?”
“If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.”
“I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you want to be wholly in the world you are writing about, that it would take two days to get the visitor's voice out of the house so that you could listen to your own characters again?”

Source : Margaret Bourke-White (2016). “Portrait of Myself”, p.331, Pickle Partners Publishing
“I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.”
“The text has disappeared under the interpretation.”
“Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Sure, thereâ€™s the talent, but there also has to be the will. Give me human will and the intense desire to win and it will trump talent every day of the week.”

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