"For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a centering principle, and mine is this: that I will pay close attention to this world I find myself in. 'My heart keeps open house,' was the way the poet Theodore Roethke put it in a poem. And rendering in language what one sees through the opened windows and doors of that house is a way of bearing witness to the mystery of what it is to be alive in this world."

-- Julia Alvarez

#Writing Quotes #Heart Quotes #Doors Quotes

“Now the big danger is to avoid doing anything, unless you have a surety, unless you have an assurance that you'll be successful. It's not about being successful. It's about being faithful. The good is worth doing, because it's good. And who knows what the results will be?”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.”
“Venture capital has done much more, I think, to improve efficiency than anything.”

Source : Source: www.minneapolisfed.org
“I had Alex Riley out there as well and he's jumping up and down excited. You know, hugging me and the fans are going nuts and booing me.”
“I've been talking about retiring for years. It's my standard answer to the question, 'What are your future plans?' The truth is, I'll always want to do things that are worthwhile or fun.”
“Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.”

Source : Frederick Marryat (1897*). “Works of Captain Marryat: With Illustrations”
“People in magazines are 50% bimbo and 50% pregnant women.”
“When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.”

Source : Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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