"The responses of friendliness, compassion, and appreciation that I felt ...--all situational permutations of basic goodwill--depended on my mind's being relaxed and alert enough to notice both what was happening around me and what was happening as my internal response. [p.50]"

-- Sylvia Boorstein

#Appreciation Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying we don't have work for black women. But right now I don't know what's next. I hope that there are more opportunities to come my way.”
“There are only three things you need to let go of judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and you will have the whole mind and twinkly heart of a child.”
“Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.”

Source : Edward Dahlberg (1964). “Alms for oblivion: essays”
“Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.”
“Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter.”
“My wife Ricky is my muse. Her personal style and natural beauty have always been my inspiration.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 03, 2013
“For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.”
“If I have a lot of adrenaline in my body, that is helpful because I feel less pain”

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