"With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world."

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Helen Keller

#Friendship Quotes #Death Quotes #Taken Quotes

“I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.”
“Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.”
“Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul.”
“I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.”
“When I started‚ I faced a lot of hardships. People used to call me a Rafi clone because I used to sing my favourite singer's songs. Then 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa' happened. It gave me a good break.”
“Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol.”

Source : Bahai lecture, New York; as quoted in "Abstract Expressionist Painting in America", W.C. Seitz, 1983, p. 10, October 30, 1951.
“Survivors do not mourn together. They each mourn alone, even when in the same place. Grief is the most solitary of all feelings. Grief isolates, and every ritual, every gesture, every embrace, is a hopeless effort to break through that isolation. None of it works. The forms crumble and dissolve. To face death is to stand alone.”
“Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.”

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