"The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way."

-- Joyce Carol Oates

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Children Quotes

“Never look back. If Cinderella had looked back and picked up the shoe she would have never found her prince.”
“When I talk to audiences about the size and age of the cosmos, people often say, "It makes me feel so insignificant." I answer, "The bigger and more impersonal the universe is, the more meaningful you are, because this vast, impersonal place needs something significant to fill it up." We've abandoned the old belief that humanity is at the physical center of the universe but more come back to believing we are at the center of meaning.”
“The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans - but in hindsight that era ended some 150 years ago.”
“There is a growing subculture of barefoot runners, people who got rid of their shoes. And what they have found uniformly is you get rid of the shoes, you get rid of the stress, you get rid of the injuries and the ailments.”
“Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.”
“Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.”
“All Iâ€™m saying is like, spoil me with your consistency Always remain the same you and you wonâ€™t have to worry about a different me”
“You just need an opportunity and then you yourself have to do a good job, and then you hope that people go, 'Oh yeah, I forgot about her.'”

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