"Summer has come with the loveliness of a mother Heat, not warmth, now pours onto my face, aging me, taking me closer to death. Let it. I am here to live my story, to love my story. I will not fail to savor any gift out of a desire for self-preservation. Self-preservation is not a great virtue in this story."

-- N.D. Wilson

#Summer Quotes #Mother Quotes #Self Quotes

“Jeff Klein, one of the earliest champions of Conscious Capitalism, offers a highly practical yet profoundly intuitive blueprint for achieving your purpose-and making a difference at work. You will return to Working for Good again and again. It belongs on your desk and in your heart.”
“At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.”
“He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.”
“Success means controlling your own time. Time is the most important currency, but once you spend it, man, its gone.”
“Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.”
“A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer is not there to see the reaction of the person he writes to, so there's a great unknown to the process that requires a leap of faith. The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else, trusting that the feelings will be delivered, and that the recipient will understand the writer's intent. How childish to think that could be easy.”

Source : "Brava, Valentine: A Novel". Book by Adriana Trigiani, March 16, 2010.
“The greatest failure is the failure to try.”
“Stay awesome bros, I know you will.”

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