#rest

We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#enlightened #hope #self-interest #spirit #will

I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#about #am #best #both #closest

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#black #contained #ever #experience #father

All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, it's the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it. ↗

— Guy Clark

#enjoy #first #form #guitar #gut

Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries. ↗

— Kenneth Clarke

#cost #countries #creditor #debt #difference

I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer. ↗

— Stanley Clarke

#composer #film #good #good film #guy

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#genuine #hanging #known #like #look

The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It is its own size. And grief comes to you. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#comes #grief #i #i think #interesting

No, my mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me interested in it when I was a kid, because she and I are very close. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#actress #because #close #i #interested

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#prodigal #rebellion #reconciliation #repentance #restoration