"I believe that if something is troubling you, simply start from where you are and take the action necessary to change it."

-- Susan Jeffers

#Believe Quotes #Action Quotes #I Believe Quotes

“The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free to emote over us, to re-create us in their history-based understanding, and dismiss our present lives as archaic and irrelevant to the times.”

Source : Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.125, Open Road Media
“What's good in the hood?”
“Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be.”
“Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”

Source : Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.437, Simon and Schuster
“People are more what they hide than what they show.”
“Magic [has] been replaced by machinery.”
“Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.”
“Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood For years, thou hermit, in the lonely sea Of grass that waves around thee!”

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