"I felt like a Tinker toy kid building my own self out of one of those toy building sets; for as she laid her life before me, I reassembled the tableau of her words like a picture puzzle, and as I did, so my own life was rebuilt."

-- James McBride

#Kids Quotes #Self Quotes #Toys Quotes

“Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.”

Source : Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult
“People called me "Slim" and "Daddy Long Legs." My best friend Martine named me Daddy Long Legs after she saw me running track. She was making fun of me!”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.”
“No one cares what operating system you run as long as it stays up.”
“For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.”

Source : Annette Funicello, Norman Vincent Peale, Christopher Reeve, Michael J. (CON) Fox (2008). “Stories to Comfort the Soul”, GuidepostsBooks
“All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is almost a perceptual necessity; in order to see what the photograph is of, we must first repress our consciousness of what the photograph is.”
“When we ask for the abolition of the State and its organs we are always told that we dream of a society composed of men better than they are in reality. But no; a thousand times, no. All we ask is that men should not be made worse than they are, by such institutions!”

Source : Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.134, Courier Corporation
“I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have for the arts, books, etc. There is a sweet, fine quality in life that has nothing to do with this, and more and more I find myself valuing myself with those people.”

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