"I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence."

-- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#Grandparent Quotes #Quality Quotes #Body Quotes

“In American Society today, we need to have volunteerism. I truly believe that it is the glue that will hold us together and it will be the energy that will take us into the 21st century.”
“Dive into your heart center. Sit in the silence. Desire self-realization with all your heart, with all your mind, and all your soul. Everything will take care of itself.”
“She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.”
“Words, for me, don't have as much contextual leeway as sound.”
“However passionate, sinning, and rebellious the heart hidden in the tomb, the flowers growing over it peep serenely at us with their innocent eyes; they tell us not of eternal peace alone, of that great peace of "indifferent" nature: they tell us, too, of eternal reconciliation and of life without end.”
“I'm in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception.”
“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.”
“Creativity is really the structuring of magic.”

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