"Well, anyway, her death changed our lives for the better, because it brought a kind of awareness, a specific sense of purpose and appreciation we hadn't had before. Would I trade that in order to have her back? In a fraction of a millisecond. But I won't ever have her back. So I have taken this, as her great gift to us. But. Do I block her out? Never. Do I think of her? Always. In some part of my brain, I think of her every single moment of every single day."

-- Elizabeth Berg

#Appreciation Quotes #Block Quotes #Taken Quotes

“Life's true face is the skull.”
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
“I did that film just so I could kiss Robert Redford.”
“The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door.”

Source : Song: The House You Live In, Album: Summertime Dream
“I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't.”
“To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal.”

Source : Violette Leduc (1965). “La bâtarde: an autobiography”
“We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate.”
“We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 61), 1937.

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