"This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind."

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Source : Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.115, Library of America

Gwendolyn Brooks

#Life Quotes #Blooming Quotes #Noise Quotes

“It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here is the fountain of action and of thought.... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.”
“Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.”
“My favorite animal is steak.”
“I read somewhere, one, that crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion. I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Because inside of me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom, toward Tobias, and, above all, towards life. And as hard as I try, I cannot kill it.”
“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.”

Source : "Traits of a Healthy Family" by Dolores Curran, (p. 199), 1985.
“Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.”
“As it turns out, that feeling of being lost or listless or never achieving your potential doesn't contain itself within any certain decade of life; it just lives in you until you learn how to cope with it or let it go.”

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