"The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."

-- Alexander Pope

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“God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.”
“The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.”
“Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go.”

Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.59, Faber & Faber
“Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.”
“I like a new clean book, freshly bound, particularly when I am the first to read it. I like dirty books - where other people have been before me, slipping fried eggs between the pages as markers - rather less.”

Source : Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”
“Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are the honey in the lion.”
“But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute.”
“A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless with himself but kind to everybody else.”

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