"When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?""

-- Nancy Astor

#Family Quotes #Dying Quotes #My Birthday Quotes

“To be completely honest, I didn't want to compete with myself. I wanted to reinvent myself. This seemed like the perfect way to step back in without competing with what I've already done, because I can't win that battle.”
“We in astrophysics we think of the universe all the time. So to us, Earth is just another planet. From a distance, it's a speck. And I'm convinced that if everyone had a cosmic perspective you wouldn't have legions of armies waging war on other people because someone would say, "Stop, look at the universe."”
“My job is to be fit and I'm really blessed that I get to go and work out and live a really healthy lifestyle.”
“Obama had reached out to the business community, they just haven't liked all of his decisions and some of his rhetoric. But generally, I think the administration is quite open and accessible.”
“Practice can be stated very simply. It is moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others. That seems so simple-except when we substitute for real practice some idea that we should be different or better than we are, or that our lives should be different from the way they are. When we substitute our ideas about what should be (such notions as "I should not be angry or confused or unwilling") for our life as it truly is, then we're off base and our practice is barren.”
“Carried by light, images remain while sensation is so evanescent as to be always beyond belief.”

Source : Rae Armantrout (2010). “Versed”, p.11, Wesleyan University Press
“My insides still turn over when he looks at me that certain way.”
“Time cancels young pain.”

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