"The challenges in this place are real and sometimes very difficult, but I've learned to slow down and look for beauty in my days, for the mysteries and blessings woven into everything, into the very words we speak."

-- Kim Edwards

#Real Quotes #Blessing Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.”
“I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.”
“Phychical pain is more easily borne than physical; and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former.”
“I want to be accessible to a certain type of person who wants to walk around with their eyes open, or at least is open to the idea of change.”
“I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist.”
“Drunk people run stop signs, high people wait for them to turn green”
“This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.”
“It is on a day like this one, a little later a little earlier that you descover without surprise that something is wrong that you don't know how to live and you will never know”

Source : "Things: A Story of the Sixties".

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