"...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a fire you've tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind.... That's why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going."

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Source : Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.84, Vintage

Kevin Brockmeier

#Wind Quotes #Fire Quotes #Long Quotes

“In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the fundaments upon which the devout build their lives.”

Source : Stephen L. Carter (1993). “The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion”, Basic Books
“I think that all people, in some way, have privilege in some way shape or form. I have access to things that others don't, so privilege isn't wrong. But as a believer, we kind of bank on that. We have access to the Father, so we bank on that through the Son, so Christ gave us privilege.”
“...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.”
“One plus one equals both.”
“I am the cat that walks alone.”
“Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its own characteristics... The group thinks, feels, and acts quite differently from the way in which its members would were they isolated. If, then, we begin with the individual, we shall be able to understand nothing of what takes place in the group.”
“See, forgiveness doesn't happen all at once. It's not an event - it's a process.”
“There's a good-feel factor about Sheffield Wednesday”

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