“Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly; they were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. It was a Sunday in September. There would only be four. The clouds were high and the swallows would be here for another month or so before they left for the south before they returned again next summer.” ― Ali Smith, The Whole Story and Other Stories
“September approaching…I feel I owe myself a brief respite of leisure and no rushing around. I can’t face the dead reality. I want rainy days, lanterns and a hundred moons twining in dark leaves, music spilling out and echoing yet inside my head.” —Sylvia Plath
“Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.” ― Nora Ephron Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“Most of the time the universe speaks to us very quietly in pockets of silence, in coincidences, in nature, in forgotten memories, in the shape of clouds, in moments of solitude, in small tugs at our hearts.” — Yumi Sakugawa
“Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.” ― David Byrne
“In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.” ― Edward Abbey Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.” ― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality–your soul, if you will–is as bright and shining as any that has ever been....Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret luminous place. Believe it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly.” ― George Saunders
“Do you have the patience to wait Till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving Till the right action arises by itself?” ― Lao Tzu Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual.” Henry John Temple, Britain’s Prime Minister from 1850 to 1860 http://www.irdiplomacy.ir/en/news/1928080/no-permanent-enemies-or-friends-only-permanent-interests
America for Americans. James Monroe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_James_Monroe - https://nairaquest.com/en/topics/3264-america-for-americans-analysis-interpretation-and-meaning
“I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' — there's more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out.” ― Frank Zappa Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Eighty percent of success is showing up. Woody Allen - Pareto principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
"We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known. All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest." ~Carson McCullers
“What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.” ― Joyce Carol Oates Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“Let it all go, one foot in the grave and one bag packed. We shall go to our end in the warm glow of the past, burning up the memories, all the clutter given back.” ― Peter Pouncey, Rules for Old Men Waiting