"Some days I think she was really miserable, because she cried a lot. In a way, I'd had to steel my heart to her crying. You need to steel yourself to a lot of things when someone in your family is really sick."

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Source : Cynthia Kadohata (2008). “Kira-Kira”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

Cynthia Kadohata

#Heart Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Sick Quotes

“Emptiness is the pregnant void out of which all creation springs. But many of us fear emptiness. We prefer to remain...surrounded by things...we imagine are subject to our control.”
“There are many qualities of a great leader. Passion is one, empathy is another, listening is another, decisiveness is another. I think a great leader makes people feel comfortable, so that they feel that they're allowed to be stupid, they're not afraid to give their opinions.”

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“Quitting, for me, means not giving up, but moving on; changing direction not because something doesnâ€™t agree with you, but because you donâ€™t agree with something. Itâ€™s not a complaint, in other words, but a positive choice, and not a stop in oneâ€™s journey, but a step in a better direction. Quitting-whether a job or a habit-means taking a turn so as to be sure youâ€™re still moving in the direction of your dreams.”
“Infrastructure sector is all about building assets for the country. It is part of nation building.”
“The Muslim women that I have met are super-powerful and amazing and smart and they are, they're not allowing themselves to be held back by the laws that exist. And you know, the Internet exists now, and mobile phones are freeing up stuff. I have a really good friend who's from Iran and a really good friend who's from Kuwait, and they talk about getting music on the black market and how that's such an intense, amazing experience. And how they value the music so much more, because it's such a risk to own it.”

Source : "Swinging Modern Sounds #35: The Location Of The Soul". Interview with Rick Moody, therumpus.net. April 20, 2012.
“I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.”
“As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.”

Source : William Harvey, Robert Willis (1847). “The Works of William Harvey ...”, p.156
“Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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