"When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same."

-- Toni Morrison

#Sympathy Quotes #Pain Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“There is magic in the feel of a paddle and the movement of a canoe, a magic compounded of distance, adventure, solitude, and peace. The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness and of a freedom almost forgotten. It is an antidote to insecurity, the open door to waterways of ages past and a way of life with profound and abiding satisfactions. When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known.”

Source : Sigurd F. Olson (2012). “Wilderness Days”, p.69, U of Minnesota Press
“Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.”
“Water creates a neurosis in golfers. The very thought of this harmless fluid robs them of their normal powers of rational thought, turns their legs to jelly, and produces a palsy of the upper limbs.”

Source : Peter Dobereiner (1973). “The glorious world of golf”
“Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.”
“Yep, I'm a geek. Ever since I got the Millennium Falcon for Christmas in 1978. And I still have it, in perfect condition, just without the box... but I still play with it!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.”
“Setting aside the issue of gender while highlighting the symmetry of bodies seemed indispensable in order to focus on the narrative of human beings in the making.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.”

Source : Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.16, Egmont UK

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