"We start out as little bits of disconnected dust."

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Naomi Shihab Nye

#Dust Quotes #Littles Quotes

“It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.”
“When someone is giving you his opinion, you should receive it with deep gratitude even though it is worthless. If you don't, he will not tell you the things that he has seen and heard about you again.”
“Things you never thought were going to turn into something end up being the most important things in your life. You have to learn to not try to control it.”
“The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.”
“Not to be such a perfectionist, it makes life hard. I'd like to be more relaxed about everything.”
“Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.”
“Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe.”
“When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.”

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