"My heart is not peripheral to me."

-- June Jordan

#Heart Quotes #My Heart Quotes

“I learn more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes.”
“My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.”
“Sometimes just getting up in the morning and standing at the gate can bring the gate down.”
“It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?”
“Dr. McDreamy, that's what I call Patrick's character. He's gorgeous, he's got a great body and he's got damn fine hair.”
“Eventually cancer becomes just another annoying thing that you deal with, you know, like cellulite.”
“It's often our best friends who make us fall”
“I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd: 'I Myself am Heav'n and Hell”

Source : Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.189, University of Virginia Press

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