"In Vineyard Haven, on Martha's Vineyard, mostly I love the soft collision here of harbor and shore, the subtly haunting briny quality that all small towns have when they are situated on the sea"

-- William Styron

#Sea Quotes #Quality Quotes #Haunting Quotes

“The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss.”
“I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.”
“I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing, I am unwelcome and my beauty is not beauty here. My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, my body is longing.”
“Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.”
“Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.”
“I've always considered myself a workaholic... The way I work, I have to turn myself upside down and hang myself by my ankles and wring myself out like a wet sweater, and I have to do that with other people, too, because I think that's where something good comes out.”
“The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things.”

Source : Sue Woodruff, Mechthild (of Magdeburg) (1982). “Meditations with Mechtild of Magdeburg”, Bear & Co
“There is nothing wrong with a big bet, if a big bet is a good bet.”

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