"memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast pain."

-- Gail Caldwell

#Pain Quotes #Memories Quotes #Grief Quotes

“There was this rapper from New Orleans, Mystikal, who when I hear his music, I hear myself. Whenever I wanna get hyped, I put on Mystikal.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Love is mistranslated into sex, because sex is not an expression of love. Sex is an expression of physical activity. It can be an expression of love between two people in love, but it's a carnal expression.”
“Public toilets have a duty to be accessible, poetry does not.”
“Regweld is really a fine wizard," he continued, patting the shoulder again. "And his ideas for crossbreeding a horse and a frog are not without merit; never mind the explosion! Alchemy shops can be replaced!”
“Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.”
“A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling.”

Source : "Culture: Caspar D. Friedrich and the Wasteland" by Gjermund E. Jansen in Bits of News, March 3, 2005.
“Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way?”
“There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.”

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