"Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?"

-- Mahmoud Darwish

#Body Quotes #Homeland Quotes

“Once you learn to hit, teach yourself to never miss again.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 03, 2014
“Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley proportional to its size, and all of them together forming a system of vallies, communicating with one another, and having such a nice adjustment of their declivities that none of them join the principal valley on too high or too low a level; a circumstance which would be infinitely improbable if each of these vallies were not the work of the stream that flows in it.”
“Music is my friend, no matter where I go.”
“Throw all caution to the wind, today, on your 40th No need to have wisdom and sage But tomorrow, as you start your 5th decade Do try to act more your age”
“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”

Source : Alice Walker (2003). “The third life of Grange Copeland: Meridian ; The color purple”
“There is a place within each of us where we cannot hide from the truth, where virtue sits as judge. To admit the truth of our actions is to go before that court, where process is irrelevant. Good and evil are intents, and intent is without excuse.”

Source : R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Passage to Dawn: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.168, Wizards of the Coast
“I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.”
“Why did the generals who have been so ready to term me a complaisant and incompetent yes-man fail to secure my removal? Was that all that difficult? No, that wasn't it; the truth was that nobody would have been ready to replace me, because each one knew that he would end up just as much a wreck as I.”

Source : "The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Keitel". Book by Walter Gorlitz, p. 52, 1966.

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