"This is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize."

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Source : Sarah Manguso (2011). “The Two Kinds of Decay”, p.183, Granta

Sarah Manguso

#Suffering Quotes #Important Quotes #Attention Quotes

“Arguments could fill a marriage like water, running through everything, always, with no taste or color but lots of noise.”
“What I know about this world is white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.”
“The people always know that some of the grain will be good, some of the crop will be saved, some will return and bear the strength of the kernel, that from the bloodiest year some survive to outfox the frost.”

Source : Neala Schleuning, Meridel Le Sueur (1983). “America, song we sang without knowing: the life and ideas of Meridel LeSueur”, Don Olson Distribution
“Think of the purest, most all-consuming love you can imagine. Now multiply that love by an infinite amount-that is the measure of Godâ€™s love for you.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dieter F Uchtdorf from Aug 21, 2014
“You don't need vision to be a visionary.”
“The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.”

Source : "Interview with Octavia Spencer of The Help". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. August 9, 2011.
“Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.”
“What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.”

Source : Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.70, Macmillan

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