"I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion- keep you from eating, which I liked to do."

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Source : Septima Poinsette Clark (1990). “Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement”

Septima Poinsette Clark

#Hurt Quotes #Digestion Quotes #Eating Quotes

“The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.”
“I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in your competence. Be sure that your priorities are in order so that you can proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing will take the place of persistence.”
“If you can write DNA, you're no longer limited to 'what is' but to what you could make.”
“Luke was a little boy in a growing body that felt pain and sadness and fear for his mum, and he always believed he would be safe with his dad.”
“Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.”
“The wrong kind of guy to fall in love with is the guy who will let go of the steering wheel as a joke. A guy who finds it amusing to make you uncomfortable, which is more common than you'd think, is someone you want to avoid.”

Source : "Who's Anna Kendrick dating? 2015 boyfriend hunt" by NationalLedger.com, January 8, 2015.
“Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.”

Source : Eknath Easwaran “How to Meditate: first chapter "Meditation on a Passage" from "Passage Meditation – A Complete Spiritual Practice"”, Nilgiri Press
“I'm looking for anything interesting in the guitar playing, songwriting, artwork, and production. If you look at the stack of CDs on my desk and in my car, you'll find a very wide range of music under the umbrella of metal.”

Source : "Dead Child". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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