"The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the otherâ€™s welcome."

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Source : Derek Walcott (2014). “The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013”, p.227, Macmillan

Derek Walcott

#Inspiring Quotes #Mirrors Quotes #Doors Quotes

“Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.”

Source : Ariana Franklin (2007). “Mistress of the Art of Death”, p.299, Penguin
“Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. Getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.”
“I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'”
“The more attention that is drawn to any of the fighters, especially in a positive way, is good for the sport.”
“I don’t trust beauty anymore / when will I stop believing it?”

Source : Reginald Shepherd (1996). “Angel, Interrupted”
“Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others”
“May Allah show mercy upon the man who shows me my faults.”
“The creatures that inhabit this earth--be they human beings or animals--are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world.”

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