"Your truth may not look like mine, but that is not what matters. What matters is this: You can look at a scar and see hurt, or you can look at a scar and see healing."

-- Sheri Reynolds

#Hurt Quotes #Healing Quotes #What Matters Quotes

“My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.”
“I think acceptance of human rights is going to progress from one day to the next. I don't think there's going to be any violent revolution about the whole thing anywhere. Of course, it looks like it every once in a while. You hear about it on television and in newspapers: riots here and there. But that is a passing phase.”

Source : Erskine Caldwell (1988). “Conversations with Erskine Caldwell”, p.102, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“A spiritually illumined soul lives in the world, yet is never contaminated by it.”
“If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination”
“Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come after it, -so you ignore, So you make perfect the present, condense, In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment, Thought and feeling and soul and sense.”
“Longevity is something I never gave a second thought to. I guess it's the shadow of growing up in post WWII, but I never believed I would live past 20. Here I am though... a senior citizen... my voice and heart are stronger than ever, but boredom is the greatest enemy so I have to be careful not to slip over the edge.”
“Don't you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.”
“First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.”

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