Zora Neale Hurston on mindset
Zora Neale Hurston76 quotes“I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.”
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Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston Love, I find, is like singing.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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