"TAKE HEART TO FLAT OUT DECIDE TO BE WELL AND STRIDE INTO THE FUTURE, SANE AND WHOLE"

-- Toni Cade Bambara

#Heart Quotes #Stride Quotes #Wells Quotes

“I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.”
“But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of one's money. Avarice, the most hateful and wolfish of all the hard, cool, callous dispositions of selfishness, has its own peculiar caprices and crotchets. The ingenuities of its meanness defy all the calculations of reason, and reach the miraculous in subtlety.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.47
“I think for me, I had a long-standing desire to orchestrate the sunrise, and never came up with the right thing on piano. So at a certain moment, I had the revelation that the whole thing would be electronic, not traditional acoustic.”

Source : "Orchestrating The Sunrise: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani Interviewed". Interview with Danny Riley, thequietus.com. September 13, 2016.
“You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at the view.”
“Mercies and blessings come in different forms-sometimes as hard things. Yet the Lord said, 'Thou shalt thank the Lord thy God in all things' (D&C 59:7). All things means just that: good things, difficult things-not just some things. He has commanded us to be grateful because He knows being grateful will make us happy. This is another evidence of His love.”
“My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships.”
“How could an Angel break my heart? Why didn't he catch my falling star? I wish I didn't wish so hard. Maybe I wished our love apart.”

Source : Song: How Could an Angel Break My Heart, Album: Secrets, 1996
“A man is great by deeds, not by birth.”

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