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Li-Young Lee
"To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not the blade. Before the story ended, he'd removed the iron sliver I thought I'd die from. I can't remember the tale, but hear his voice still, a well of dark water, a prayer. And I recall his hands, two measures of tenderness he laid against my face." --
Source : Li-Young Lee (1986). “Rose: Poems”, p.15, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Li-Young Lee
#Fathers Day Quotes
#Prayer Quotes
#Dark Quotes
“Spring is the only revolutionary whose revolution has succeeded.”
“Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness.”
Source : "The Lord's Prayer" with Leslie Basham, www.reviveourhearts.com. August 29, 2016.
“I want to win, so sometimes I get a little overanxious.”
“The phrase I use is 'easy camaraderie.' Non-western immigrants of color and their progeny like me - my parents came here fifty years ago and I was born and raised in Rochester - whether it's Teju Cole, or Rudresh Mahanthappa, or Himanshu Suri, or Miya Masaoka, or Barack Obama, we all have that in common. And that's different from being descended from enslaved African captives. I am very conscious of that difference, and conscious of how easy it is to forget about it. I find myself always coming up against that.”
“The minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort.”
“At least here in Stockholm if you go out to any of our 4 metal clubs and talk to ten guys you can be sure nine of them play in a band! The bad thing is there is no underground movement here anymore. Going to a show with local band's ten years ago would mean at least 300 people, now you can be lucky if 50 shows up!”
“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.”
“Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?”