"The real hell of this," he told her, "is that you're going to get through it."

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Source : Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.163, Random House

Gail Caldwell

#Real Quotes #Loss Quotes #Hell Quotes

“My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things.”
“When the strong help the weak, it makes us all stronger”

Source : Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 4 March 2009, Washington, D.C.
“Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.”
“Successful ecologists are successful in part because they have prepared their minds to attack scientific problems using a variety of intellectual tools.”
“Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the candle in barbed wire. When I first lit the Amnesty candle, I had in mind the old Chinese proverb: 'Better light a candle than curse the darkness.'”
“The soul was never put in the body to stand still.”
“One day you will realise that for your life to change for the better, you must first change for the better.”
“Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!”

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