"I had been thinking about the question, "What do I love about America?" I kept coming back to this idea of community and home, which already obsessed me in my work. But I couldn't quite figure out how to lead beyond my immediate experience. Then I was just standing at the kitchen sink, and I watched the sun rise, and I thought, "How many hundreds of thousands of people are watching the same sun rise right now?" I just knew the poem would go from that line."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Richard Blanco

#Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Theres beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, thats harder than others.”
“It is paradoxical but nonetheless true that the nearer man comes to his goal to make his life easy and abundant, the more he undermines the foundations of a meaningful existence.”

Source : Franz Alexander (1960). “The Western Mind in Transition: An Eyewitness Story”, New York, Random House [1960]
“You can’t motivate people, you can only create a context in which people are motivated.”

Source : "You Can't Motivate People". www.businessinsider.com. February 16, 2012.
“Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous.”

Source : 'Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes' (1899) 'Equanimity'.
“You get the most approval when you care the least about it.”
“We will kill in ourselves a world in order to build another, a higher one reaching to the heavens.”

Source : "For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard". Book by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, 1936.
“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”

Source : Sean Covey (2011). “The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens”, p.200, Simon and Schuster
“Readers have no doubt noticed how seldom builders live in houses of their own construction. You will find a town or village expanding in all directions with their masterpieces of modernity in the way of houses and bungalows; but the builder himself you will usually find living nearer the heart of things, snugly and comfortably housed in some more substantial, if less convenient, building of less recent date.”

Source : Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.308, David R. Godine Publisher

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