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Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested ... That's where the Light enters you. — Rumi

In order to weep, I had descended to the realm of the dead themselves, to their secret chambers, led by the invisible but soft hands of birds down stairways which were folded up again as I advanced. I displayed my grief in the friendly fields of death, far from men: within myself. — Jean Genet

Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth. — Octavio Paz

I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience. — Julia Roberts

Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin's Day will shine upon the key-hole. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content. — George L. Carlson

True love was a gift. Some people never recognized true love, while others allow true love to slip through their fingers — D.F. Jones

We can't own ideas; they can only own us. — Marty Rubin

He had never actually said what he hunted, only that he enjoyed it. — Kayla Krantz

The search for wisdom is like a search for gold. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Well, golly gee, I'm so sorry that you had to answer an awkward question at lunch. That must have been so inconvenient. Much more inconvenient than getting hit in the face with a tampon flying out of your locker." When he grins, I totally lose it. All the frustration and hurt comes rolling out of me. I'm tired of playing the good, calm girl. I rise up on my knees, reach over and hit him across the top of his head. "Fuck," he curses. "What the hell was that for?" "That's for being an asshole!" I hit him again, — Erin Watt

There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off. — Robert Smith

You've got so much up ahead
You'll make new friends
You should see your kids and wife
And I'd end up saying have no fear
These are nowhere near the best years of your life
— Brad Paisley