"To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge."

-- Zhuangzi

#Life Quotes #Letting Go Quotes #Ignorant Quotes

“I was very adept at acquiring languages.”
“The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.”

Source : Edgar I. Ailor, William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “BLUE HIGHWAYS Revisited”, p.11, University of Missouri Press
“Success is overcoming obstacles on the way to your dreams,”

Source : Karl Mecklenburg (2009). “Heart of a Student Athlete: All-Pro Advice for Competitors and Their Families”, p.41, Greenleaf Book Group
“The one who decides who goes ahead has the upper hand, regardless of who gets to go. This is why many women do not feel empowered by such privileges as having doors held open for them. The advantage of going first through the door is less salient to them than the disadvantage of being granted the right to walk through a door by someone who is framed, by his magnanimous gesture, as the arbiter of the right-of-way.”
“Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.”
“I would say what makes me vulnerable is when I allow my mind to spiral. You know? When I start not being in the present moment and I start skipping ahead and picturing my daughter driving on the freeway on a late saturday night.”
“We as a society have created rules and laws and systems that not only are transphobic and homophobic but theyâ€™re also racist and theyâ€™re sexist. Because weâ€™re all brought up in the middle of that, whether we want to admit it or not, weâ€™re all on some level racist and sexist and homophobic and transphobic. It makes it difficult for other people when we turn a blind eye to it. We donâ€™t agree with the laws that are going, but we donâ€™t vote against them. We donâ€™t like what our leaders are doing, but we donâ€™t pick up the phone and call them. We donâ€™t stand up and protest.”

Source : Source: www.usmagazine.com
“In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard. I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume.”

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