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It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.

Jeff Bezos

Pain doesn’t know it’s small. Not until something bigger than itself tells it so.
LAUREN EDEN

Big Deep Pain
There were still embers scattered around me from the bridges I have burned. I wonder if they can feel it too. The space between us lingering like a scarlet letter, I’m learning how to love again.
EMILY KURC

Bridge Learning Love Myself Scatter Wonder
I’m either about to fail miserably or I’m about to have a huge break through and to be honest that’s my sweet spot or something.
CARISA DOWNS

Break Failure Honesty Miserable Myself
I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor’s office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey – ‘Here’s the lady who brought the roses’ vs. ‘Here’s the lung cancer.’
BERNIE SIEGEL

Boys Bring Cancer Doctors Office
Day by day become more and more intimate with the inner stillness, joy and love which is the fragrance your own pure heart. Keep quiet.
MOOJI

Intimate Joy Love Purity Quiet
When space travel becomes as common as air travel, the future of civilization will be assured.
ELON MUSK

Air Assured Civilization Common Future Space Travel
Real men always have time for their woman. No matter what, even if hes busy he’ll find a way to make time for her.
WIZ KHALIFA

Meaningful Men Real
Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
JORDAN PETERSON

Destruction Power Sin
Live in the Acts of the Apostles, and every day you will see some miracle worked by the power of the living God.
SMITH WIGGLESWORTH

Apostle Day Every God Live Live Act Miracle Power See Some Work
Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
ADRIENNE RICH

Liquid Poetry Stone Voice Wear Writing
The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men, so women don’t expect to achieve them, and that becomes one of the reasons they don’t.
SHERYL SANDBERG

Achievement Childhood Expectation Leadership Live Men Ourselves Reason Women
One of my methods for developing my own voice in fiction, a process I am taking very slowly and deliberately, is through these very intense encounters with certain writers.
ADAM MORRIS

Author Encounter Fiction Inflected Published Reading Translating Work Writer
When I went to Fashion Week, I was very disappointed by how few women of color were in those shows. I do speak to the younger girls, and I hear them when they say they’re not getting the big contracts or into the big shows.
BEVERLY JOHNSON

Color Fashion Girl
A hope of something beyond our place and time. This is what books – the best books – give us: a lifeline, a reason to believe, a way to breathe more freely.
BLAKE MORRISON

Believe Book Giving
Those who divorce aren’t necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
ALAIN DE BOTTON

Belive Cause Divorce Most Neat Necessary Other Unhappy
For me drawing is an attempt to understand what I feel about the world I live in.
BRIAN FROUD

Drawing Feels World

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