"Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future."

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Source : "Healing by Degrees" by Jean-Paul Bedard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2014.

Lewis B. Smedes

#Broken Heart Quotes #Forgiveness Quotes #Heartbroken Quotes

“I have even taught classes on writing about sex, and I've looked closely at different writers' sex scenes. On the level of craft I've given it a lot of thought. The pitfalls are simple: It can sound clinical or medical, which isn't right, or pornographic, because the characters disappear.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I miss that process of getting the script and reading it and working on it. Every actor has their own way of memorizing their lines, and the whole process of starting to work with the other actors and the director, and doing rehearsals, and going to the location, and going through wardrobe.”
“The ground of being is the ground of our being, and when we simply turn outward, we see all of these little problems here and there. But, if we look inward, we see that we are the source of them all.”
“Only the flowing water is pure and sweet. Only the spinning top and the moving bicycle do not fall over. Rest is not found in irregular and purposeless motion, nor is it stagnation; all real and firm rest is to be sought in harmonious action.”
“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.”

Source : Patricia Neal, Richard DeNeut (1988). “As I am: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster
“It is only when aggression is legitimate that one can expect prodigies of valour.”
“Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.”
“It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also, the consolations of solitude.”

Source : "Derek Mahon, The Art of Poetry No. 82". Interview with Eamonn Grennan, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 2000.

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