"One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist."

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Jhumpa Lahiri

#Home Quotes #Hands Quotes #Fists Quotes

“It's not that I didn't love myself before. Sometimes we don't realize that we are compromising ourselves. To understand that a person is not good for you, or that that person is not treating you in the right way, or that he is not doing the right thing for himself - if I stay, then I am not doing the right thing for me. I love myself enough to walk away from that now.”
“I mean, what's thematic? How to put it? Going back to, like, 1980, when I started writing poetry. Language itself became an issue. I'd even think about font as an aspect of text, you know, how something looks on a page. A lot of this is the product of a very solitary existence, it's like, language, I mean, you know. A lot of time spent alone in the creation of all of this stuff.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.”
“If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.”
“I have observed several hundred salespeople who were taught to use deceptive practices like 'bait and switch' and encouraged to play negotiation games with customers. They were so stressed by this behavior that they suffered from a high incidence of alcohol and substance abuse, divorce, job-jumping, and low productivity. In the same industry, I have observed countless people who had been taught to sell with high integrity. Ironically, their customer satisfaction, profit margins, and salesperson retention were significantly higher.”

Source : Ron Willingham (2009). “Integrity Selling for the 21st Century: How to Sell the Way People Want to Buy”, p.13, Crown Business
“The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a workman, but he is sometimes paid as little as an unskilled laborer.”
“[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap...”
“Never cut loose from your longings.”

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