"I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just have to enlarge themselves to make room for me, won't they, and for everybody else."

-- Stevie Smith

#Today Quotes #Rooms Quotes #Alive Quotes

“I can't wait until dissent is patriotic again.”
“I wasn't interested in car parts per se, I was interested in either the color or the shape or the amount... Just the sheet metal. It already had a coat of paint on it. And some of it was formed.... I believe that common materials are the best materials.”
“It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.”
“Spirituality doesn't look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people in the family eve though you've had a rough day.”

Source : "What We Nurture". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. May 9, 2013.
“Of all the girls I ever knew some loved and some denied me And all the words I ever said have been no use to hide me And all the songs I ever sung each one of them untied me And all the girls I ever loved have left themselves inside me.”

Source : Song: Love Chronicles, Album: Love Chronicles
“Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.”
“He gave me a severe look over his spectacles and said, as if he thought the words were deadly venom and might kill me, "You are an untidy person.”
“Love is real. In every single moment, there are only two choices: love or fear. I can tell you from experience that love is exponentially more powerful. And a hell of a lot more fun.”

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