"A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment."

-- David A. Bednar

#Grateful Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Contentment Quotes

“My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.”
“how can he love me then not? He went,he ran. And I cannot bring him back. Yet I left the door metaphorically wide open, hoping he'd come back and bang on it proclaiming, "I want to be here with you. Always." Soon I'm going to have to shutit. For my safety and my sanity. Let go. I don't want to. Won't letting go be just that - letting go? Giving up? Admitting failure? Admitting that it is really, truly over?”
“Look around. Take the tour. Fear hangs on the wall and shame sometimes. Emotional dislocation too. But I am brave in my admission. Are you? When no one is looking, I check to see if anyone seems as scared as me, or lonely, or shy, or insecure. Is it just me? I'm not so sure. Is your heart an onion too? Show me yours, I'll show you mine we used to say. Your turn. Peel away.”
“I want to be happy. i want to make people happy. i do not need to be rich to do that.”
“Once in his life, a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth, I believe. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience, to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder about it, to dwell upon it. He ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it. He ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind. He ought to recollect the glare of noon and all the colors of the dawn and dusk.”

Source : N. Scott Momaday (1976). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.83, UNM Press
“I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!”
“Today we have two Vietnams, side by side, north and south.”

Source : "Sheila Jackson Lee says there are two Vietnams: North and South" by Ciara O'Rourke, www.politifact.com. July 21, 2010.
“So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.”

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