"As a scar commemorates what happened, so is memory but itself a scar."

-- Carl Phillips

#Memories Quotes #Scar Quotes #Happened Quotes

“Nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream.”
“You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's pain and harshness and wretched dreariness with - no not with certainty but with an ignorance you could live with. Deep ignorance, but still a kind that knew its limits. The limits were crucial.”

Source : "Timescape". Book by Gregory Benford, 1980.
“If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world”
“I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.”
“You have to have leadership and you have to also have compassion for all the people you're working with. If the demands of the job start to erode that too much, I really have to take a second look at what I'm doing. We get to tell stories for a living and get paid for it. If we're not showing up most days with an attitude of gratitude.”
“But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.”

Source : Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc
“What you are to be, you are now becoming.”
“If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.”

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