"When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters."

-- Kristin Armstrong

#Moving Quotes #Water Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?”
“Clothing, hair and make-up are just reflective of how I am feeling at any given moment and that varies from day to day.”
“I have removed a lot of negative influence in my life and try to surround myself with positive people. I have a much more simple life than the old days.”
“The clouds roll on. Silent as sleepwalkers the clouds keep coming from infinity bank behind bank and line after line, and change colors on the earth.”

Source : Rolf Jacobsen, Roger Greenwald (2002). “North in the World: Selected Poems of Rolf Jacobsen, A Bilingual Edition”, p.9, University of Chicago Press
“If you can get by with quotes from The Godfather and nothing you say matters, that's pretty bleak, don't you think? Don't we want what we say to matter?”
“Research, as the college student will come to know it, is relatively thorough investigation, primarily in libraries, of a properly limited topic, and presentation of the results of this investigation in a carefully organized and documented paper of some length.”
“When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.”
“All my desires are born of my dreams. And I have proven my love with words. To what fantastic creatures have I entrusted myself, in what dolorous and ravishing world has my imagination enclosed me? I am sure of having been loved in the most mysterious of domains, my own. The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love. My amorous imagination has always been constant and high enough so that nothing could attempt to convince me of error.”

Source : Paul Eluard, “At The Window”

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