"Only after Mom went missing did you realize that her stories were piled inside you, in endless stacks. Mom's everyday life used to go on in a repeating loop, without a break. Her everyday words, which you didn't think deeply about and sometimes dismissed as useless when she was with you, awoke in your heart, creating tidal waves."

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Source : Kyung-Sook Shin (2011). “Please Look After Mom”, p.260, Vintage

Shin Kyung-sook

#Mom Quotes #Heart Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“â€¦ Our lives are made in these small hours, these little wonders, these twists & turns of fate. Time falls away, but these small hours, these small hours still remain. All of my regret, will wash away somehow. But i can not forget, the way i feel right nowâ€¦”

Source : Song: Little Wonders
“When I am on my board, I always have my ID, ChapStick and maybe a $20 bill, because you never know when you'll need to buy a water or something.”
“Happiness is not a house where you can live. (But it is a house you can build.)”
“Every athletic career, no matter how modest or lofty, is a journey.”
“As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.”
“Blow your own horn loud. If you succeed, people will forgive your noise; if you fail, they'll forget it.”
“There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses. Both the strong and the weak grasp at this alibi. The latter hide their malevolence under the virtue of obedience: they acted dishonorably because they had to obey orders. The strong, too, claim absolution by proclaiming themselves the chosen instrument of a higher power -- God, history, fate, nation, or humanity.”
“We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax. No tinkering with this, that, or the other law will stop the trend toward socialism. We must repeal the Sixteenth Amendment.”

Source : Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.10, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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