"Mother is a synonym for abandonment and death. Comparing this synonym to water, it is like poured-out water. I call it mother, the identity that I cannot identify."

-- Kim Hyesoon

#Mother Quotes #Water Quotes #Identity Quotes

“I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.”
“Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.”
“If you want to put out a song that you wrote yesterday tomorrow, go on Twitter, type in a new URL, and give it to the people!”
“I don't see my old films, but I think of the characters I played as friends, like the women I meet in my life who made strong impressions on me. I remember them and they are part of me.”
“... it took me five years of going right into the mouth of the lion to learn to be at ease onstage ... if you deal with an audience as a bunch of people having a great time, you'll have a much bettrer time as a performer”
“We may gamble on outsmarting the law; we may even gamble on the leniency of man and the mercy of God-but no man ever won a gamble with his own conscience. Even should he think he has beaten his conscience into submission, his misdeeds still leave their mark upon him. Anyone who gambles against this fact has already lost his gamble.”
“I ride my horses three to four times a week.”
“While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.”

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