#may

I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#haruki-murakami #may-kasahara #the-wind-up-bird-chronicle #birds

I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been. ↗

— Edwin Starr

#came #could #cultivate #dreamt #england

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#god #heaven #his #low #may

I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#archetypal #hair #i #i am #leading

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

#conformity #counted #down #flattened #from time to time

If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48) ↗

— Stephen Levine

#awareness #dismay #healing #judgment #mental-health

I have no news of my coming or passing away-- the whole thing happened quicker than a breath; ask no questions of the moth. ↗

— فرید الدین عطار

#mayfly-and-pilgrim #zen #zen

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#best #bottom #every #how #learns

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#deeper #did #down #grown #had

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#fiction #history #inexhaustible #limit #lived