"And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers"

-- Margaret Atwood

#Flower Quotes #Loss Quotes #Flow Quotes

“The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.”
“A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.”
“Reasons never matter, once Death comes cold and bold and takes the living by the hand. You count up your dead, every one..”
“[On Marilyn Monroe:] I think my response to her death was the common one: it came to me with the impact of a personal deprivation but I also felt it as I might a catastrophe in history or in nature; there was less in life, there was less of life, because she had ceased to exist. In her loss life itself had been injured.”

Source : Diana Trilling (1964). “Claremont essays”
“On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.”
“Avoid letting temper block progress-keep cool.”
“At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them”

Source : "Grey's Anatomy / The First Cut Is the Deepest". 2005.
“The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad, one doesn't so much discover the hidden Wonders of the World, but the hidden wonders of the individuals with whom one is traveling. They may turn out to afford a stirring view, a rather dull landscape, or a terrain so treacherous one finds it's best to forget the entire affair and return home.”

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