"We forgot about Buddha. We forgot about God. We developed a coldness inside us that still has not thawed. I fear my soul has died. We stopped writing home to our mothers. We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting.?"

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Julie Otsuka

#Dream Quotes #Mother Quotes #Home Quotes

“Yes!--still I love thee: Time, who sets His signet on my brow, And dims my sunken eye, forgets, The heart he could not bow;-- Where love, that cannot perish, grows For one, Alas! that little knows How love may sometimes last; Like sunshine wasting in the skies When clouds are overcast.”
“To me, wholeness is the key to aliveness. It is more than just physical vitality, it is radiance, coming from being at one with yourself and your experience. Life then flows through you.”
“Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sautÃ© it, whatever. MAKE.”
“It's definitely a relief that it's over. It's been a long season for us, with ups and downs. But we're going to put it behind us now and we've got to try and be a better team.”
“I've often thought that when something is hard for you, whether it's going to law school or anything else that challenges you, that's probably what you should do.”
“If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem.”

Source : Interview with Vyeto Malesh, marsdust.net. January 22, 2017.
“Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it...”
“I try never to hear what another person thinks of me. I enjoy life a lot more when I spend as little time as possible hearing or thinking about what other people think about me. I go to the needs behind the thoughts. Then I'm in a different world.”

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