"I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing."

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Source : David Whyte (2009). “The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship”, p.60, Penguin

David Whyte

#Fall Quotes #Want Quotes #Heat Quotes

“I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense.”

Source : Journal entry, from the National Trust collection, November 17, 1968.
“God has ordained that His people live by promises and not by explanations.”
“If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a giant, epic, global story, because that requires a giant, epic, global budget.”
“Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows.”
“Being liked for the way you looked is worse than not being liked at all.”
“Donâ€™t be stupid, be a smarty / Come and join the Nazi Party!”
“Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.”

Source : 1970 Future Shock.
“The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.”

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