#dl

I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry. ↗

— Ben Okri

#begins #circles #come #conscious #cycle

Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll. ↗

— Dusty Baker

#budget #care #everyone #get #going

But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort. ↗

— Amos Oz

#any #anywhere #everyday #everyday people #fanaticism

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#consequence #feeling #great #immortality #indifferent

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase. ↗

— Yogi Berra

#could #hardly #i #suitcase #thick

In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#cultures #east #generations #matter #middle

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#forgiveness #function #heart #regardless #temperature

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#grief #inwardly

If you start very far to the left, it's harder to get to the middle. ↗

— Rob Portman

#get #harder #left #middle #start

I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed. ↗

— Jeffrey Combs

#close #flies #get #human #human psyche