"Did people ever stop changing? They surprised you with fresh pain. Sometimes they surprised you with happiness, but the pain was the sharper surprise. There was no way to protect yourself from it. People could always change and always hurt you. Of course it went in the other direction too, you could hurt them when you didn't intend it and that too was out of your control."

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Source : Susan Minot (2010). “Evening”, p.195, Vintage

Susan Minot

#Hurt Quotes #Pain Quotes #People Quotes

“The weeks go by so slow I almost think time passin backwards.”

Source : Winston Groom (2002). “Forrest Gump”, p.58, Simon and Schuster
“A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.”
“I look at Jessica Alba and think she's got a great body. I think that's what women are supposed to look like.”
“Every time I hear anyone speak of the Sacred Heart of Jesus or of the Blessed Sacrament I feel an indescribable joy. It is as if a wave of precious memories, sweet affections and joyful hopes swept over my poor person, making me tremble with happiness and filling my soul with tenderness. These are loving appeals from Jesus who wants me wholeheartedly there, at the source of all goodness, his Sacred Heart, throbbing mysteriously behind the Eucharistic veils... I love to repeat today 'Sweet Heart of my Jesus, make me love You more and more.'”

Source : "Journal of a Soul".
“Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.”
“My parents are European immigrants. And I think as Europeans there are so many languages in close proximity that it's part of the culture to try to learn at least one other language. So my parents really encourage it in the house. Chinese would be really great to learn - like Mandarin or Cantonese. Portuguese would be incredible.”
“I consider my work non-objective and I think abstract is an abstraction of something, like a landscape. Abstraction means something is abstracted. It relates to something. Non-objective relates to nothing. It has no object.”
“He who labors diligently need never despair.”

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