#tin

As soon as you start writing, even if it is under your real name, you start to function as somebody slightly different, as a "writer". You establish from yourself to yourself continuities and a level of coherence which is not quite the same as your real life... All this ends up constituting a kind of neo-identity which is not identical to your identity as a citizen or your social identity, Besides you know this very well, since you want to protect your private life. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#life

This was maybe the first time she’d done it when she’d felt the true intimacy of it. The first time she’d done it because she wanted to express her feelings for a guy in some new way she hadn’t before. The first time it meant something. The fact was, sex with a man she cared for was making all other sex pale in comparison. No wonder sex with Mike had been the best of her life from the very start—caring for him had been…destiny. Destiny in Destiny. ↗

— Toni Blake

#love #life

Love is not an exclusive relationship with another person; love is the quality that arises when we are in contact with our inner being, with our authentic self, with the meditative quality within, with the inner silence and emptiness. This inner emptiness is experienced by others and is expressed on the outside as love. This love is not addressed to a specific person; it is a presence and quality that surrounds a person like a fragrance. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#inner-being #love #meditation #relationships #silence

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#futbol #hamm #mia #mia-hamm #shooting

For if life had taught her anything, it was that healing and peace can begin only with acknowledgment of wrongs committed. ↗

— Susan Abulhawa

#israeli-palestinian-conflict #palestine #life

I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#group #i #i think #microsoft #operating

Actually, I didn't start sweating until I had children. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#children #had #i #start #sweating

It’s amazing how fast you can write when there’s a gun to your head. ↗

— Steven Ramirez

#life

I'll be writing as long as I can hold a pen in my curled, crimped arthritic hands and then I'll dictate it, if it comes to that. They'll have to pry my pen out of my cold, dead fingers - and even then, I'll fight 'em for it. Guaranteed. ↗

— Wanda Lea Brayton

#love #poetry #writing #life

I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#guns #klee #painting #life