"The storm: I close my eyes and, standing in it, try to make it mine."

-- Jorie Graham

#Eye Quotes #Storm Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The first bowl sleekly moistened throat and lips, The second banished all my loneliness The third expelled the dullness from my mind, Sharpening inspiration gained from all the books I've read. The fourth brought forth light perspiration, Dispersing a lifetimes troubles through my pores. The fifth bowl cleansed every atom of my being. The sixth has made me kin to the Immortals. This seventh... I can take no more.”
“Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.”
“I'm looking more like my dogs every day - it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.”
“Beauty is there to be noticed. Too often it is taken for granted because we are moving too fast to let it in and allow it to deliver its message in us. We need to pay attention. To show indifference to beauty is an insult to its Creator.”
“It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.”
“When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.”
“Success by its very nature demands a period of overcoming, a process by which we become strong in broken places.”

Source : Dennis Kimbro (2011). “Daily Motivations for African-American Success: Including Inspirations from Famous African-American Achievers”, Fawcett
“It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.”

You may also like: