"My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone."

-- Anne Lamott

#Mind Quotes #Trying Quotes #Neighborhood Quotes

“Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.”
“I was always interested in curing the brain.”
“Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.”

Source : "Josephine Hart obituary" by Lennie Goodings, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2011.
“The older we get the less afraid we are.”
“A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of its own soul.”

Source : Ayi Kwei Armah, Gwendolyn Brooks (1991). “Very Young Poets”, Third World Pr
“The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.' Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.”
“Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.”
“Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.”

Source : Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.100, Grove Press

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