"For I am coconut / and the heart of me / is sweeter / than you know."

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Source : Nikki Grimes (2003). “Bronx Masquerade”, p.42, Penguin

Nikki Grimes

#Heart Quotes #Coconuts Quotes

“Since beings desire to exist, because to exist is a good thing: they desire the One without which they cannot exist.”
“Are you motivated? Are you coherent? Is your intention aligned? Are your feet, tongue, heart and wallet congruent? That intention shines through.”

Source : "Entertainment exec Peter Guber". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 15, 2011.
“After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the world instead of returning to Steppenwolf to act in and write plays. But I'm from the Midwest, and that's what we do: We go back to work.”
“A collection is like a dinner party. It is made up of the people you invite, but also the people you don't.”
“The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.”
“lf the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the same time virtue and terror, virtue without which terror is fatal, terror without which virtue is impotent. The terror is nothing but justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is thus an emanation of virtue.”
“Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.”
“I got sick and tired of a joyless existence, and so have thought a lot in the past few years about how to bring more joy into my life. The more I think about it, the more I believe that joy and gratitude are inseparable. Joy is defined in the dictionary as an "emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing what one desires," while gratitude is that "state of being appreciative of benefits received." In other words, whenever we are appreciative, we are filled with a sense of well-being and swept up by the feeling of joy.”

Source : M. J. Ryan (2017). “Attitudes of Gratitude: How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life”, p.14, Conari Press

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