"It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good."

-- Laura Ingalls Wilder

#Kindness Quotes #Helping Quotes #Make You Happy Quotes

“the past is not only that which happened but also that which could have happened but did not.”

Source : Tess Gallagher (1986). “A concert of tenses: essays on poetry”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“Sound strategy starts with having the right goal”
“The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ***** down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?”
“I got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I'm a real confused person, but there are some focused parts to my life now, and I'm slowly trying to put all the pieces back together.”
“Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from doing anything yourself, while simultaneously endowing lavish pseudo-agencies to hand out leaflets listing a 1-800 number you can dial to order more leaflets.”
“Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.”
“I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.”
“I grew up in Florida riding horses, so for the majority of my life I was either in boots and jeans or a bathing suit.”

Source : "Kate Upton: American Bombshell" by Mark Kirbi, www.gq.com. June 19, 2012.

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