"Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly."

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Cornelia Funke

#Women Quotes #Grief Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.”
“Out of near disaster, came real progress.”

Source : Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart
“The state of interbeing is a vulnerable state. It is the vulnerability of the naive altruist, of the trusting lover, of the unguarded sharer. To enter it, one must leave behind the seeming shelter of a control-based life, protected by walls of cynicism, judgment, and blame.”

Source : Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.32, North Atlantic Books
“Love, how often that word came up in books over and over again. If you had wealth and health, and beauty and talent...you had nothing if you didn't have love. Love changed all that was ordinary into something giddy, powerful, drunken, enchanted.”
“I got out on the street and started crying the kind of hysterical tears made justifiable only by turning off oneâ€™s cell phone, putting it to the ear, and pretending to be told of a death in the family.”

Source : Sloane Crosley (2008). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.35, Penguin
“Keep active - do something physical each day. Could be as simple as taking the dog out for a walk (if you've got a dog!), but could be going for a swim, or going to the gym every day.”
“On the whole, my family had always adopted a reserved attitude toward Zionism; my great-uncle Edmond had acted on his own in generously supporting Jewish Palestine, for reasons more humanitarian and religious than political. But the devastation caused by the war and the extermination of six million Jews radically changed all of our former attitudes. The idea of a Jewish homeland acquired an intense emotional appeal; I myself became an ardent Zionist..”

Source : Guy De Rothschild (1985). “The Whims of Fortune: The Memoirs of Guy de Rothschild”, Random House Inc
“Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street... Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks.”

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