"That is the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief. Too many good people die a little when they lose someone they love. One death begets two or twenty or one hundred. It's the same all over the world."

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Source : Ben Sherwood (2010). “Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel”, p.267, Bantam

Ben Sherwood

#Grief Quotes #Math Quotes #Two Quotes

“Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.”
“There are some effects of the biome. Compact bodies tend to conserve heat relative to linear ones. This can affect average height as well as body proportions. The study participants Europeans and Americans do not fall into the range where this effect is powerful, however.”
“Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.”

Source : Moses Mendelssohn, Patricia Noble (2007). “Phädon: Or, On the Immortality of the Soul”, p.53, Peter Lang
“Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.”
“It's difficult to change overnight but if you are persistent and take one step at a time you will see results!”
“Self must be denied as to time and attention for prayer. All-prayer cannot be wielded without the expenditure of time. "A minute with God" seldom lays hold of Him. Sustained prayer is necessary. Such time may only be found by snatching it from personal pursuits, however legitimate they may be.”
“And an educated mind is nothing but the God-given mind of a child after his parents' and his grandparents' generation have got through molding it. We can't help teaching you; you will ask that of us; but we are prone to teach you what we know, and I am going, now and again, to warn you: Remember we really don't know anything. Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know. That is your playground, bare and graveled, safe and unbreakable.”
“I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.”

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