"There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table."

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Source : "Susan Minot's Torrid World of Individual Desire" by Will Blythe, www.elle.com. January 28, 2014.

Susan Minot

#Kindness Quotes #Love Is Quotes #Honor Quotes

“The male quality is the creative gift.”
“You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.”
“The corporation, like the psychopathic personality it resembles, is programmed to exploit others for profit.”

Source : Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.69, Simon and Schuster
“There was wildlife, untouched, a jungle at the border of the sea, never seen by those who floated on the opaque roof. Describing his early experience, in 1936, when a fellow naval officer, Philippe Tailliez, gave him goggles to see below the Mediterranean Sea surface.”
“It is really not how much you can get out of life that matters; it is how much you can put into it that counts. What will you contribute to life today?”
“I was extraordinarily lucky. I wrote a book because I wanted to see if I could write a mystery. Someone nagged me into sending it to a contest, which it won, after which I was offered a two-book contract, thus requiring the writing of a second book.”
“My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.”
“Running is in my blood-the adrenaline flows before the races, the love/hate of butterflies in your stomach.”

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