"The devil is not as black as he is painted."

-- Dante Alighieri

#Black Quotes #Devil Quotes

“You have a lot of friends who love you dearly and you don't know who they are.”
“You're my existence. I'm yours”
“A coerced choice does not reflect virtue, only compliance.”
“Silently a flower blooms, In silence it falls away; Yet here now, at this moment, at this place, The world of the flower, the whole of the world is blooming. This is the talk of the flower, the truth of the blossom; The glory of eternal life is fully shining here.”

Source : Zenkei Shibayama (2012). “A Flower Does Not Talk: Zen Essays”, p.110, Tuttle Publishing
“The 16 years have gone so fast. I came to Minnesota as a 19-year-old kid. Marv Grissom was the pitching coach, an old-timer who taught me quite a bit. Marv didn't like the way I stepped toward the plate. I had a tendency to throw across my body. So, he took me off to the side at Met Stadium and put a chair on the mound. If I threw across my body, I would step on the chair. Marv was trying to hurt me. I fooled him. I started stepping the right way.”
“There is no innocent sleep so innocent as sleep shared between a woman and a child, the little breath hurrying beside the longer, as a child's foot runs.”
“When you really consider the everyday things around you, they start to seem like tiny miracles.”
“Streams may spring from one source and yet some may be clear and some be foul.”

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