"Itâ€™s hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is Godâ€™s will. Itâ€™s hard to know what to do with your emptiness when youâ€™re not supposed to have emptiness."

-- Miriam Toews

#Grieving Quotes #Towns Quotes #Emptiness Quotes

“White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.”

Source : Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.21, U of Nebraska Press
“It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.”
“Be impatient. All things don't come to those who wait. Push on with what you believe because life is very short.”
“Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.”
“All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.”
“True love was beyond the bars, but a facsimile of it came with no suffering at all.”
“I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.”
“A vice is a failure of desire”

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