"My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them."

-- Lydia Davis

#Meditation Quotes #Stories Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.”
“The man, or the boy, in his development is psychologically deterred from incorporating serving characteristics by an easily observable fact: there are already people around who are clearly meant to serve and they are girls and women. To perform the activities these people are doing is to risk being, and being thought of, and thinking of oneself, as a woman. This has been made a terrifying prospect and has been made to constitute a major threat to masculine identity.”

Source : Jean Baker Miller (2012). “Toward a New Psychology of Women”, p.71, Beacon Press
“The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.”
“Never call a man a fool; borrow from him”

Source : Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Addison Mizner (1908). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom”
“I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.”
“Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.”
“The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.”

Source : David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.15, Egmont UK
“In 1976 I discovered Ebola - now I fear an unimaginable tragedy”

Source : "In 1976 I discovered Ebola - now I fear an unimaginable tragedy", www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2014.

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