"My mother used to tell me when I……" — Naomi Shihab Nye
"My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, "Please leave your foolishness at home." But how could I do that? It was stuck on me."
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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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We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where…
— Afrika Bambaataa
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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We…
— Afrika Bambaataa
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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete…
— Douglas Adams
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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
— Josh Billings
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Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
— Josh Billings
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As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
— Lord Byron
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But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe…
— Benjamin Carson
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Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
— Cher
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The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
— Paulo Coelho
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Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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