Salvemini Duca Quotes & Sayings

But no life was without it's strain & strife, not if it was fully lived. Opening up to experience, even the good ones like trust & love, was to open yourself up to the pain. I suppose the key was to not compound matters by making the rest of it unnecessarily hard. My need for control had certainly done that in the past. So I made a promise to myself in that moment.
I would make a concerted effort to reach for what was soft & good in this world. I'd find a place to settle into, and hold still so that this world's good and soft could reach back & touch me as well. — Vicki Pettersson

I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just thinking about food. — Gayle King

You won't forget that," Claire assured her.
"I like things written down," Tabitha mumbled. "Then you've got them for good. — Margaret Mahy

I suffer from a unique genetic condition. It's called Dumbass Syndrome and, unfortunately, there's no cure. — Ava Gray

I am with the roots
of flowers
entwined, entombed
sending up my passionate blossoms
as a flight of rockets
and argument;
wine churls my throat,
above me
feet walk upon my brain, monkies fall from the sky
clutching photographs
of the planets,
but i seek only music
and the leisure
of my pain — Charles Bukowski

People regard art too highly, and history not enough — John Irving

This life is full of signs, many of which find their way to you exactly when you need them most. — Christy Hall

On the surface, we come to understand that who we are is something separate from all other objects in the world. This is the first and primary of illusions we are taught to believe after having been welcomed to the human world. I do not use the word "illusion" in a negative sense, but in a necessary one. Just as the enjoyment of a film or theatrical play may depend upon the ability of the actors to woo the audience into believing the world they are portraying; the enjoyment of life may also be found in our own ability to wield the power of illusion. — Saunsea

Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will. — Thomas Jefferson

Impossible to say why childhood joy ends with such finality in so many things. — Dave Franklin