"My skin prickled and I looked back at the ocean. None of us ask for the things we inherit; they are thrust upon us, willy-nilly. Like The Marine, I suddenly understood. Mom and I weren't trespassing. This house was ours. This view was ours. And that seemed as absurd and unreal as the stories Sailor Hat had spun for me on the ferry."

-- Aimee Friedman

#Mom Quotes #Ocean Quotes #Marine Quotes

“A spiritual retreat is medicine for soul starvation. Through silence, solitary practice, and simple living, we begin to fill the empty reservoir. This lifts the veils, dissolves the masks, and creates space within for the feelings of forgiveness, compassion, and loving kindness that are so often blocked.”
“The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself.”
“The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem.”
“I believe the Rolling Stones wanted to play in Golden Gate Park.”
“Want to learn to forgive? Then consider how you've been forgiven.”
“I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!”
“I have a German friend who works on memorialization. The last generation of Nazis and Holocaust survivors are now dying. So literally, we are threatened now for the first time ever, with memorializing that, with no first-person account of it left on earth. There's a lot of worry amongst scholars in Germany about what comes next: "All the memorialization has been done, we've done with everything we can."”
“The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.”

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