"my MamÃ¡ Grande, a tiny Mayan woman, took me aside when I was an adolescent and told me several things that didn't make a bit of sense to my young and inattentive ears, and as young people tend to waste all attempts of our elders to relay to us wisdom accumulated over the decades, I thought my MamÃ¡ Grande had a few mice in the attic."

-- Ana Castillo

#People Quotes #Ears Quotes #Waste Quotes

“Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or event.”
“Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.”

Source : "Rival Caesars". Book by Arthur Desmond, 1903.
“We wish to become one thing or another, rather we wish to become everything and in this pursuit of becoming everything we only end up becoming idiots.”
“The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.”

Source : "Tom Hiddleston: 'The dream is to keep surprising yourself'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2011.
“Today it's not strange to see an artist 30 years old having her first retrospective! Different time, different speed. After having been the key point of recognition for an artist, the museum today is just another place to experiment and work, like we can do in any art fair. The king or queen of the moment is completely ignored and replaced by the new one a few years later. Contemporary novelty in art disappears faster than the seasonable changes of the fashion designs.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“There can be no revival when Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-Eyes are not found in the audience.”
“Sentences that begin with "all women" are never, never true.”
“Once we make our relationship choices in an adult way, a prospective partner who is unavailable, nonreciprocal, or not open to processing feelings and issues, becomes, by those very facts, unappealing. Once we love ourselves, people no longer look good to us unless they are good for us.”

Source : David Richo (2002). “How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving”, p.85, Shambhala Publications

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