"Simplicity hinges as much on cutting nonessential features as on adding helpful ones."

-- Walter Bender

#Cutting Quotes #Simplicity Quotes #Helpful Quotes

“Women also lose sight of their goals by taking on extra responsibilities. We are virtual responsibility magnets. We don't make these decisions consciously or deliberately, but out of the fear that if we don't act on a need, it will never get resolved. ... But we fail to realize that once we become responsible for something, we may be responsible to it forever.”

Source : Pat Heim, Susan K. Golant (2005). “Hardball for Women: Revised Edition”, p.211, Penguin
“Donâ€™t ever sell yourself short. Stand tall. Never be ashamed of who you are. You are beautiful, you are loved. You are needed. You are worth it. Promise me you wonâ€™t forget that. Promise me you wonâ€™t let your scars define who you are. Let your trials shape you. Let your victories humble you.”
“Parental anxieties: A timeline. Pre-1800s: Potato famine, death of entire villages. 1900s: Trying to keep dad's job through depression so entire family does not starve or have to sell off children to agribusiness. 2000: Infringement of Parenthood on sense of Personhood.”
“It's the form it takes when it comes out the other side, of course, that gives a story something unique--its life. The story, in the way it has arrived at what it is on the page, has been something learned, by dint of the story's challenge and the work that rises to meet it--a process as uncharted for the writer as if it had never been attempted before.”
“I wanted to capture time through how food and I were getting along at any given moment. That necessitated writing some dark stuff, some sad stuff, and a lot of painful memories, because my life has often been dark, sad, and painful. I didn't want to sugarcoat anything.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.”
“A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.”
“Passion is the gasoline of social media,”

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