"The trouble is that you think you have time."

-- Jack Kornfield

#Procrastination Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.”
“For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.”
“A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.”

Source : Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)
“The translator ... Peculiar outcast, ghost in the world of literature, recreating in another form something already created, creating and not creating, writing words that are his own and not his own, writing a work not original to him, composing with utmost pains and without recognition of his pains or the fact that the composition really is his own.”
“Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker.”
“If I feel strongly about anything, I get overwhelmed with emotion.”
“Her father said she was a princess. He did not see that she was a brave knight.”
“Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.”

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