"Strike deep, divide us from cheap-got doubt, Leap, leap between us and the easy out; Teach us to seize, to use, to sleep well, to let go; Let our loves, freed in us, gaudy and graceful, grow."

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Source : Marie Ponsot (2013). “Springing: New and Selected Poems”, p.64, Knopf

Marie Ponsot

#Letting Go Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“I never thought I would become a photographer.”
“If you keep up with pop culture, everybody knows the joke.”
“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: youâ€™re falling to the floor crying thinking, â€œI am falling to the floor crying,â€ but thereâ€™s an element of the ridiculous to it â€” you knew it would happen and, even worse, while youâ€™re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didnâ€™t paint it very well.”
“Given the central role of effective, firmwide risk management in maintaining strong financial institutions, it is clear that supervisors must redouble their efforts to help organizations improve their risk-management practices...We are also considering the need for additional or revised supervisory guidance regarding various aspects of risk management, including further emphasis on the need for an enterprise-wide perspective when assessing risk.”
“Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?”
“In death a hero, as in life a friend!”
“There is very little in civilized life that demands everything you got intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Driving is living. It's aggressive instead of passive living.”
“You learn from your mistakes, or you go backward. I'm the kind of person who wants to move forward.”

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