"It is almost impossible for the poetess, once laurelled, to take off the crown for good or to reject values and taste of those who tender it."

-- Louise Bogan

#Crowns Quotes #Taste Quotes #Impossible Quotes

“I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.”
“not all thoughts have to become words!”
“To confound the tyranny of man there should exist for a century a third sex, both male and female, and stronger than men. This new sex would prove with the lash that men as well as women are made for its pleasure; and then you would hear men protesting against the tyranny of the hermaphrodite sex and admitting that strength should not be the sole rule of right. Just why do they refuse to grant the women the independence which they would demand from the third sex?”
“Once a week, do a thorough review of all your projects in as much detail as you need to. If you do, your systems will work. If you don't, no system will work.”

Source : David Allen (2011). “Ready For Anything: 52 productivity principles for work and life”, p.82, Hachette UK
“Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.”
“When you're sixteen and struggling to forge an identity out of a morass of hormones and daydreams, remarks like that cut a deep groove in the brain. I trace the ongoing, victorious-feeling semi-starvation of my twenties directly back to adolescence - as a way of showing those assholes that I could control my appetites... Which is so sad, in retrospect, because of course no one cared.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“If you knew the satisfaction of performing a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel in being chosen for so noble and sacred a calling, you would feel no hesitation in embracing it.”

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