"White... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst."

-- Joan Mitchell

#Color Quotes #White Quotes #Nurse Quotes

“They say love dies between two people. Thatâ€™s wrong. It doesnâ€™t die. It just leaves you, goes away, if you arenâ€™t good enough, worthy enough. It doesnâ€™t die; youâ€™re the the one that dies. Itâ€™s like the ocean: if youâ€™re no good, if you begin to make a bad smell in it, it just spews you up somewhere to die. You die anyway, but I had rather drown in the ocean than be urped up onto a strip of dead beach and be dried away by the sun into a little foul smear with no name to it, just this was for an epitaph”
“Through forgiveness, which essentially means recognizing the insubstantiality of the past and allowing the present moment to be as it is, the miracle of transformation happens not only within but also without.”
“Did you ever notice that everyone in favour of birth control has already been born ?”
“Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive. Look at me: I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch, to be a tiny bird whose wings are still fragile, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower, to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.”
“If we could share this world below, If we could learn to love... If we could share this world below, We'd need no world above.”
“It is the Spirit alone that can mortify sin; he is promised to do it, and all other means without him are empty and vain. How shall he, then, mortify sin that has not the Spirit? A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.”
“No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw.”

Source : Christy Mathewson (2013). “Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside”, p.31, Penguin
“I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.”

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