"Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don't forget."

-- Robert Fulghum

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“What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared.”
“Thirteen years I took on this last book.”

Source : Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. July 6, 2006.
“You know that only thing that has made the whole thing worthwhile has been those few times that I was able to truly connect with another person.”
“I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.”

Source : Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.27, ETT Imprint
“You are far less likely to soil your pants and cry for your mother if youâ€™re prepared to defend yourself.”
“The thing that matters is meaning! It drives everything. Builders align their attention to the things that matter to them, and they know a lot about that stuff.”

Source : Jerry I. Porras, Stewart Emery, Mark Thompson (2006). “Success Built to Last: Creating a Life That Matters”, p.201, Pearson Education
“The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information - this is what it is good at, but it is not at all creative. All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”
“You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.”

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