"We went to Ladakh ... and we asked this woman, 'What was the benefit you had from solar electricity?' And she thought for a minute and said, 'It's the first time I can see my husband's face in winter.'"

-- Bunker Roy

#Motivation Quotes #Husband Quotes #Inspiration Quotes

“Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor”
“For the three years I lived in New York leading up to moving out to Los Angeles for 'Mad Men,' I was an office temp at Ernst & Young in Times Square. That's about as desk-jobby as it can get. There was a lot of, 'Go two floors up and make a copy of this and then bring it to me.'”
“I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.”

Source : Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.72, Penguin
“It's what I like to call the horizontal Jesus. Vertical Jesus are the songs that say 'Lord I love you, Lord I praise you, Lord I thank you' and horizontal is 'I'm in a situation. This is the problem. How can I apply that now horizontally?' There are more problems in the world because he's not being applied horizontally.”
“I write because I am alone and move through the world alone. No one will know what has passed through me... I write because there are stories that people have forgotten to tell, because I am a woman trying to stand up in my life... I write out of hurt and how to make hurt okay; how to make myself strong and come home, and it may be the only real home I'll ever have.”
“Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits.”
“Never design anything that cannot be made,”
“I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive.”

Source : "The Making of Poems" by Gregory Orr, www.npr.org. February 20, 2006.

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