"Let me be to my sad self hereafter kind."

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Source : Peter Pouncey (2010). “Rules For Old Men Waiting”, p.20, Random House

Peter Pouncey

#Grief Quotes #Self Quotes #Kind Quotes

“Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.”
“It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.”
“Support the type of thinking that leads you to feeling good, peaceful & happy.”

Source : Allan Lokos (2010). “Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living”, p.55, Penguin
“And I'm so thankful that I've been allowed to show another side of Trish.”
“Better world. Better life for everybody, every worker. Poor kids oughta be able to go anyplace their brains will take them. Not where Daddy or Mommy's pocketbooks can send them. Everybody oughta have health care, everybody oughta have some retirement security, every American. Every one. Everybody oughta have a decent good job. That's what I believe in, and that's what I fight every day to try to achieve.”

Source : "Richard Trumka, American". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 21, 2011.
“To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.”
“The thing I was beginning to figure out about Sam and Grace, the thing about Sam not being able to function without her, was that that sort of love only worked when you were sure both people would always be around for each other. If one half of the equation left, or died, or was slightly less perfect in their love, it became the most tragic, pathetic story invented, laughable in its absurdity. Without Grace, Sam was a joke without a punch line.”
“I reckon there's always a bit of pressure. We put it on ourselves, I think we always feel a bit of pressure because people around us and our manager and stuff call us perfectionists, which I find very hard to take because nothing that we do is perfect.”

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