"I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again."

-- Alice Walker

#Real Quotes #Grief Quotes #Things Change Quotes

“There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it. The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.”

Source : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated
“Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.”
“I still wasn't convinced that tossing a shoe didn't mean you harbored an anger-management problem, but I did understand love now. How it wrapped around you and made you more aware of the prickles on your skin, the roots of your hair, the intensity of every touch and every inch of you. It was like life on hi-def. Everything was sharper.”

Source : Erin McCarthy (2013). “True”, p.117, Penguin
“You don't have to be an elected official to be a public servant.”
“I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.”
“I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need.”
“The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.”
“So, I travel a lot. I hate traveling, mostly 'cause my dad used to beat me with a globe.”

Source : "Skanks for the Memories". Comedy album, February 4, 2003.

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