"My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing to do on this."

-- Wendy C. Ortiz

#Mother Quotes #Writing Quotes #Complicated Relationship Quotes

“There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.”

Source : "Mazar helps Los Angeles homeless get back on their feet". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 12, 2010.
“With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures...”
“They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them?”
“In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted... Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes.”
“Whatever you focus upon, increases.”
“You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.”
“Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such as pertains to the vast universe rather than to our own planet.”

Source : James Dwight Dana (1849). “United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 Under the Command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N: Geology”, p.615
“Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.”

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