"Grief does not seem to me to be a choice. Whether or not you think grief has value, you will lose what matters to you. The world will break your heart. So I think weâ€™d better look at what grief might offer us. Itâ€™s like what Rilke says about self-doubt: it is not going to go away, and therefore you need to think about how it might become your ally."

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Mark Doty

#Grief Quotes #Heart Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Whenever I get asked to write orchestra music or music that is for a lot of players, I try to make it a little sad.”
“Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.”
“Sailboat racing becomes a game of chance only when you are not prepared”
“Great. First the anonymous call. Now letters. Body parts all over town. It was like a scavenger hunt for psychos. Running after clues with a half-deranged, serial-killer-obsessed, recovering-addict cop was not a good idea. Then again...”

Source : Chelsea Cain (2011). “Evil at Heart”, p.148, Pan Macmillan
“I dont ever want to do anything mediocre. I hear the music in the charts and I dont mean to be rude, but those people have no soul. Learning from music is like eating a meal - you have to pace yourself. You cant take everything from it all at once. I want to be different, definitely. Im not a one trick pony. Im at least a five-trick pony.”
“There is (gentle reader) nothing (the works of God only set apart) which so much beautifies and adorns the soul and mind of man as does knowledge of the good arts and sciences . Many arts there are which beautify the mind of man; but of all none do more garnish and beautify it than those arts which are called mathematical , unto the knowledge of which no man can attain, without perfect knowledge and instruction of the principles, grounds, and Elements of Geometry.”
“Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food”
“There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend.”

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