"Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page."

-- Jessye Norman

#Wise Quotes #Kindness Quotes #Book Quotes

“Don't say that a loving God is going to send you to hell- He's not. The thing that's going to send you to hell is that you're a sinner and you don't want to admit it.”
“I have been blessed with a good, fun, and wonderful life, but I've also seen a whole lot of pain.”
“I'm a good guy at the end of the day, you know what I'm saying? A lot of people will believe what they see in the media from a long time ago. I'm just growing as an artist and as a person.”
“One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according to rule, and why it still expects nothing save from violence.”
“I think I learned pretty early that in the end, its only you. To an extent, youre all alone.”
“My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.”
“[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience...”
“Sometimes I will endanger my own life to pleasure a woman.”

Source : Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. June 11, 2009.

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