"I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart."

-- Sandra Cisneros

#Heart Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Community Quotes

“There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.”
“Our trip to Moscow opens new prospects for peace in the Middle East. Our people want simple things: to be free and to have sovereignty. All this is impossible without an end to the occupation.”
“The reason that I think it is a waste of time to engage in moral value judgements about people's violence, is because it doesn't advance by one iota our understanding of either the causes or the prevention of the violent behaviour.”
“When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins.”

Source : William Cowper (1824). “Poems of William Cowper, Esq”, p.57
“I am damned and damned and damned. How in heaven's name could I have done any of it?”
“To leave the world richerâ€”that is the ultimate success.”
“I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt while reading prose, the texture of time as it passed, life's white machine.”

Source : Ben Lerner (2012). “Leaving the Atocha Station”, p.11, Granta Books
“I'm against ignorance.”

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