"Isolation offered its own form of companionship"

-- Jhumpa Lahiri

#Companionship Quotes #Isolation Quotes #Form Quotes

“We will do anything to get away from our own pain. We will change our lives, rip people out, swallow a bottle of life-ending pills. When we hurt more than we can bear, when our lives get that dark, it's shocking what we will do to protect ourselves.”
“As soon as a person starts thinking, 'I want to be a better person,' that is the start of Yoga.”
“It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.”
“They've kicked our backsides... we've got to lick our wounds...”
“There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. And the reason I'm feeling that is more because on your breathing and your intonation than the actual words.”

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“I haven't done anything that can match up to what I learnt about myself as an actress and as a person or the friends that I made.”
“Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.”
“The first duty of a Christian, of a disciple and follower of Jesus Christ, is to deny himself. To deny oneself means to give up one's bad habits, to root out of the heart all that ties us to the world; not to cherish bad desires and thoughts; to quench and suppress bad thoughts; to avoid occasions of sin; not to do or desire anything from self-love but to do everything out of love for God. To deny oneself means, according to the Apostle Paul, to be dead to sin and the world, but alive to God.”

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