"What does old look like? Sometimes I am wrinkled, sometimes not."

-- Maxine Hong Kingston

#Looks Quotes #Doe Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“I have a coach but there's nobody at my level in Gaza. I have to do most of my training sessions on my own.”
“By creating an artificial environment, we're not stimulating our immune system enough. Germs are immune-stimulants. They challenge you to be prepared.”
“Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.”
“If you got beauty, beauty, just raise em up. Cause every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top.”
“Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.”
“I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and I really liked having them around.”
“Live today. Remove all blame from your vocabulary. Catch yourself when you find yourself using your past history as a reason for your failure to act today, and instead say, 'I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.'”
“I suppose there is hardly any one in the civilized world - particularly of those who do just a little more every day than they really have strength to perform - who has not at some time regarded bed as a refuge.”

Source : Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”

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