"Before you know what kindness really is you……" — Naomi Shihab Nye
"Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth."
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49 Quotes by Naomi Shihab Nye
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Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.
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I have always loved the gaps, the spaces between things, as much as the things. I love staring, pondering, mulling,…
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Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper…
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Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
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Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.
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Read, Read, and then Read some more. Always Read. Find the voices that speak most to YOU. This is your…
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Teaching and writing are separate, but serve/feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the…
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Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on…
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You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we…
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I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body...
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Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.
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For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you…
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When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a…
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Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's…
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Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you…
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Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.
— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
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This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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My mother, on Sundays, used to prepare things to use during the week, like freshly made broth. It wasn't chicken…
— Carrie Ann Inaba
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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
— Agnes Repplier
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I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots…
— Manny Pacquiao
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prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being…
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She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Too many cooks spoil the broth
— Jane Austen
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Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst…
— Vladimir Mayakovsky
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