"I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible to the person who works at Dunkin Donuts or who drives a bus, someone who comes home with their feet hurting like my father, someone whos busy and has too many children, like my mother."

-- Sandra Cisneros

#Mother Quotes #Hurt Quotes #Children Quotes

“In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows up through the reassertion of our old values in belligerent, testy ways. Regression of any kind is just such a return to old presumptions, often after they have been shown to be insufficient for the complexity of larger questions. The virtue of the old presumptions is that they once worked, or seemed to work, and therein lies if not certainty, then nostalgia for a previous, presumptive security. In our private lives, we frequently fall back upon our old roles.”

Source : James Hollis (2008). “What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life”, p.101, Penguin
“I canâ€™t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world thereâ€™s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.”
“Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.”
“Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person, the consistently reasonable man.”
“The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high [military] budget.”
“These books are my friends, my companions.”
“An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end.”

Source : William Wordsworth, Ernest De Selincourt, Dorothy Wordsworth, Shaver, Chester L (1988). “The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth”, Clarendon Press
“Good means ultimately he's producing character in me to conform me into the image of Christ.”

Source : Source: culteducation.com

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