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If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present. ↗

— Les Brown

#about #carrying #feelings #happened #hinder

It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#anywhere #basic #descriptions #easy #get

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#being #focal #focal point #innately #lifestyle

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#arranged #aware #came #continue #did

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams. ↗

— Les Brown

#accomplish #develop #hunger #our dreams #responsibility

On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#buildings #dusty #east #fallen #fled

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#come #experience #indians #may #reminded

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#embrace #first #handshake #perhaps #sentence

A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#back #blew #born #described #everything

I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college. ↗

— Bill Parcells

#especially #every #fighting #i #windmill