"Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel."

-- P. D. James

#Life Quotes #Pain Quotes #Broken Quotes

“Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.”
“It is impossible to rise to freedom, from the midst of corruptions, without strong convulsions. They are the salutary crises of a serious disease. We are in want of a terrible political fever, to carry off our foul humors.”
“In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.”

Source : C. J. Sansom (2004). “Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery”, p.194, Penguin
“It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.”
“Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.”
“You realize that suicide's a criminal offense. In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it.”

Source : "Fictional character: George Spiggott". "Bedazzled", www.imdb.com. December 10, 1967.
“End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.”
“Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.”

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