"I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am."

-- Shelby Lynne

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.”

Source : Margaret Edson (2014). “Wit: A Play”, p.44, Macmillan
“You couldnâ€™t get rid of the past. You couldnâ€™t ignore it, or bury it, or throw it over the balcony. You just had to learn to live beside it. It had to peacefully co exist with your present. If I could figure out how to do that, I could be okay.”
“To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.”
“Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.”
“Even when thereâ€™s a straight path in front of us, we, unfortunately, and foolishly, turn right~ around and itâ€™s after that we realize it.”
“Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.”
“There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.”
“Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.”

Source : Catherine Fisher (2011). “Incarceron”, p.214, Penguin

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