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The important thing is to make some sort of difference [...] You know, actually change something. [...] Not the whole entire world. Just the little bit around you.
You’re crazy. You fall down, stand up and walk again,
your ankles and your knees move pain that wanders around,
but you start again as if you had wings.
The ditch calls you, but it’s no use you’re afraid to stay,
and if someone asks why, maybe you turn around and say
that a woman and a sane death a better death wait for you.
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
There is music in the air, music all around us, the world is full of it and you simply take as much as you require.
You don`t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around and why his parents always wave back.
That`s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they`re pretty. It`s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.
Think of all the beauty that`s still left in and around you and be happy!
Money is like manure; it`s not worth a thing unless it`s spread around encouraging young things to grow.
If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does now.
Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.
When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.
I`m not for women, frankly, in any job. I don`t want any of them around. Thank God we don`t have any in the Cabinet.
We don`t love babies and puppies because they`re cute. It`s the other way around: we see them as cute because evolution has designed us to love things that look like that.