"Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly as year by year, our bodies age and fail, while our survival instincts compel us to keep on going-which means living with the terrifying knowledge that ultimately death is inescapable."

-- Jim Butcher

#Pain Quotes #Mean Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes

“I'm not sure running the press has changed how I write (though perhaps it has in ways I can't see), but it has certainly changed my relationship to how books get made.”

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“Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.”
“And it's not just a matter of you hurting me. I will hurt you too, even if I don't want to, I'm not the girl you think I am. And you will remember this conversation , and wish that you'd listened to me.”
“The line was originally, ‘Captain Phillips, get a load of me: fancy-free on the seven seas,’ but I ad-libbed.”
“Those who only seek friends without seeking to be a good friend are selfishly needy and demanding. And those who only want to be a good friend but do not wisely seek good friends are bound to be taken advantage of, abused, neglected, and suffer from their foolish friend choices.”
“Long experience has told me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.”
“So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.”
“We live not in our moments or our years: The present we fling from us like the rind Of some sweet future, which we after find Bitter to taste.”

Source : Richard Chenevix Trench (1874). “Poems”, p.135

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