"I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder."

-- Mario Benedetti

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Shoulders Quotes

“Eat like you love yourself. Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like you love yourself.”
“The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It is its own size. And grief comes to you. You know what I mean? Iâ€™ve always liked that phrase â€œHe was visited by grief,â€ because thatâ€™s really what it is. Grief is its own thing. Itâ€™s not like itâ€™s in me and Iâ€™m going to deal with it. Itâ€™s a thing, and you have to be okay with its presence. If you try to ignore it, it will be like a wolf at your door.”
“When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begunâ€”that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidaysâ€”whenever. But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive. You find yourself asking, 'Well then, exactly what was it I was havingâ€”that interludeâ€”the scrambly madnessâ€”all that time I had before?”
“Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.”
“Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy!”

Source : Tae Yun Kim (1994). “The Silent Master: Awakening the Power Within”
“I mean, one shot you treat like you have forty little matches instead of one forty shot match. It makes all the difference in the world. It's easier to just forget about a not so good shot.”
“And that the arming of so many black youths, uh, and loading up our community with drugs, and then just having an open shooting gallery, is the work of people who obviously don't have our best interests [at heart].”

Source : "Columnist Who Inspired Bob Costas Drops New Bomb: 'The NRA Is the New KKK'". Interview with Tim Graham, www.newsbusters.org. December 3, 2012.
“But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.”

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