"We bless the life around us far more than we realize. Many simple, ordinary things that we do can affect those around us in profound ways: the unexpected phone call, the brief touch, the willingness to listen generously, the warm smile or wink of recognition. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove."

-- Rachel Naomi Remen

#Simple Quotes #Phones Quotes #Profound Quotes

“One nourishes one's created characters with one's own substance: it's rather like the process of gestation. To give the character life, or to give him back life, it is of course necessary to fortify him by contributing something of one's own humanity, but it doesn't follow from that that the character is I, the writer, or that I am the character. The two entities remain distinct.”
“My idols are all older.”
“The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul.”

Source : Etta James, David Ritz (2003). “Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story”, p.17, Da Capo Press
“I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits”
“Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.”
“Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.”
“I read The Hunger Games voraciously and was extremely annoyed when interrupted by such inconsequential things as 'Christmas dinner.' (God, Mom, did you not understand Katniss was being pursued by the mutts? You have several children, why does it always have to be about collecting the whole set all the time?)”
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”

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