"Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life."

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Source : Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

Gretel Ehrlich

#Loss Quotes #Despair Quotes #Lessons Quotes

“If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?”
“Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.”
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
“It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.”
“The seeds of Illumination's origin sprang from an idea lead singer Philip Bailey had of collaborating with new generation of soul artists for his next solo album. The idea of illumination is vibrant and positive. Earth Wind Fire collaborating with the new soul movement made sense because the thrust of their music is still about playing instruments and utilizing vintage sounds, only in today's setting.”
“If you keep picking a scab it will bleed and never heal. If you keep dragging the pain of the past up, it will never heal.”
“I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me.”
“A dream inspiring a story is different than placing a description of a dream in a story. When you describe a character's dream, it has to be sharper than reality in some way, and more meaningful. It has to somehow speak to plot, character, and all the rest. If you're writing something fantastical, it can be a really deadly choice because your story already has elements that can seem dreamlike.”

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