"The woman hanging from the 13th floor window on the east side of Chicago is not alone...She is all the women of the apartment building who stand watching her, watching themselves."

-- Joy Harjo

#Suicidal Quotes #Sides Quotes #Chicago Quotes

“I didn't end up going bankrupt... I made some great investments and I held on to my money, which also enables me to have the freedom to do what I want now. But it's not about finances. No matter what, it's about keeping it real.”
“Be afraid of nothing. You have within you all wisdom, all power, all strength, all understanding.”
“Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.”
“I have my own way to stay focused. I work out every day. I exercise. I swim. I meditate. I breathe.”

Source : "Nneka: Neo-Soulful Voice of Nigeria". Interview with Ebony, www.ebony.com. June 24, 2015.
“She was trying to say something else; she was trying to say that the inability to articulate what one feels in any satisfactory way is one of our enduring tragedies. It wouldn't have been much, and it wouldn't have been useful, but it would have been something that reflected the gravity and the sadness inside her. Instead, she had snapped at him for being a loser. It was as if she were trying to find a handhold on the boulder of her feelings, and had merely ended up with grit under her nails.”
“The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.”
“The territorialism and desire to possess things comes directly from the ego, which strives to own and control things. Your spirit already knows you own nothing. It is a matter of realizing that your happiness does not depend on your ownership of things. They help you in your journey but they are not the journey itself.”

Source : Karen Kingston (2015). “Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui”, p.50, Harmony
“For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.”

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