"Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten."

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Ann Voskamp

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“And with each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me. And then I would remember I had a wife at home who loved me, or later that my wife had left me and I was terrirfied, or again later that I had a beautiful alcoholic girlfriend who would make me happy forever. But every time I entered the place there were veiled faces promising everything and then clarifying quickly into the dull, the usual, looking up at me and making the same mistake.”
“Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.”

Source : Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.272, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Good things come to those who hustle”
“I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.”
“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”
“The people at the CafÃ© Lehmitz had a presence and a sincerity that I myself lacked. It was okay to be desperate, to be tender, to sit all alone or share the company of others. There was a great warmth and tolerance in this destitute setting.”
“What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.”
“I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine.”

Source : "Edie: Girl on Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.

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