"Death cut the strings that gave me life, And handed me to Sorrow, The only kind of middle wife My folks could beg or borrow."

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Countee Cullen

#Cutting Quotes #Wife Quotes #Sorrow Quotes

“As I "won," I didn't feel the fruits of that. I felt the fruits when I served others, when I gave myself away. . . . I've always seen my life as an experiment. I just want to go to what works. As I felt the charity aspect in my life, the giving aspect, I felt a power and I've walked more into that.”
“It is so easy to close down to risk, to protect ourselves against change and growth. But no baby bird emerges without first destroying the perfect egg sheltering it. We must risk being raw and fresh and awkward. For without such openness, life will not penetrate us anew. Unless we are open, we will not be filled.”

Source : Patricia Monaghan (1999). “The Goddess Companion: Daily Meditations on the Feminine Spirit”, p.109, Llewellyn Worldwide
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“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.”
“If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.”
“If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same ratio in which the equality of conditions is increased.”
“Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.”
“Clutter is my natural habitat.”

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