"I began thinking about my skeleton, this solid, beautiful thing inside me that I would never see."

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Mary Roach

#Beautiful Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Skeletons Quotes

“Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.”

Source : Pearl Cleage (1990). “Mad at Miles: a blackwoman's guide to truth”, Cleage Group
“Some of us are returning to sanity, because we're tired of the pain. We're in a hurry. No time to mess around.”
“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
“My destiny is solitude, and my life is work.”
“I have a confession to make. Yesterday, I was responsible for the deaths of millions of Britons. What happened is that MI5 asked me to trail Mehan Asnik, a suspected terrorist, through the streets of London. He had escaped from our security services while infected with a plague virus. Tracking him on CCTV, I swear I had him but then, in the rush-hour bustle, lost him. When the secure mobile rang, it was Harry Pearce at Thames House, chewing me out for the slaughter that had been caused by my mistake.”

Source : "TV matters: Spooks Interactive" by Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2007.
“He might wish and wish and never get it - the beauty and the loving in the world!”
“We learned that very few people care how you accomplish something. Instead, these people care more about whether you create value for your end user.”
“Hard work and diligence are essential to success, but they require an internal motivation. That internal motivation is Vision”

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