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Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind. ↗

— Maxwell Bodenheim

#color #paint #poetry #wind

I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#get #help #i #i can #like

A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#attitude #between #day #die #every

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#home #lot #marriage #put #takes

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#going #great #great hope #hope #live

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#every #gone #happy #parent #period

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#decisions #everybody #having #life #makes

Food won't go down when you know your mother didn't want you, never liked to feed you, always hated you in her rooms. You were wrong to clutch and swallow and move your mouth. You must not be flushed, layered in fat or ripe from meat or she will despise your sight. Your skeleton cries, "I make no demands, I am ashamed of my needs, I am unworthy. I'm aware of those more deserving, those with prior and urgent claims to food." Skeleton says, "My safety is in slightness, my pride is denial. My victory is no gluttony, no guilt. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#jenny-holzer #food

prepare your food in keeping with monastic traditions—simple, basic, healthy, balanced. ↗

— Mary DeTurris Poust

#food #monastic-traditions #simplicity #food

God has entrusted me with myself. ↗

— Epictetus

#god #me #myself