"There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it."

-- Lawrence Durrell

#Pain Quotes #Self Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Forgiving is, first of all, a way of helping yourself to get free of the unfair pain somebody caused you.”

Source : Lewis B. Smedes, Jeff Crosby (2007). “Days of Grace Through the Year”, p.237, InterVarsity Press
“I'm completely optimistic - I know the end is coming!”
“I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.”
“You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you canâ€™t stop it.”
“Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, really? Me?”
“I am so close, I may look distant.”
“I always figured I myself would never be lucky enough to die, I'd just live on and on in this increasingly dreary spiral.”
“He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up that strange thing, an infant's dream), I hurried with him to our orchard plot, and he beheld the moon, and hushed at once. Suspends his sobs and laughs most silently. While his fair eyes, that swam with undropped tears, did glitter in the yellow moonbeam.”

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