"Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away."

-- Anne Lamott

#Mind Quotes #Weight Quotes #Earth Quotes

“In an ongoing relationship, each current criticism packs the punches of all the others that have gone before.”
“Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual demands that reality cannot fulfill. We have expectations of a just and moral world. Man requires meaning in a meaningless world.”

Source : "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).
“The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt.”
“In a fight against Juggernaut and Cassidy in their spacious castle basement, Cassidy mentions the word 'tomb' to the X-Men. That's all it took to send Storm into a claustrophobic fit that leaves her in a heap on the floor for three straight issues. Imagine if he would have said 'Small Closet' or 'Size 2 Jeans.'”
“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”
“He did seem like a nice boy. Seeming and being are two different things.”
“People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.”
“Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name.”

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