"At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its terrible finality or the havoc it could wreak on those who'd entrusted the deceased with their hearts."

-- Jon Krakauer

#Heart Quotes #Appreciate Quotes #Youth Quotes

“Friends are sometimes a big help when they share your feelings. In the context of decisions, the friends who will serve you best are those who understand your feelings but are not overly impressed by them.”
“I find it bitterly ironic that the bulk of the money a medical-malpractice jury awarded to Terri [Schaivo] for use in making her better instead went into Mr. Felos's pocket to make her dead.”
“I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect for direct experience and a negation of the body.”
“It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.”
“Changes occur because there’s a gap between what is and what should be.”
“We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.”

Source : Platform, Independent League; "New York Journal-American" Newspaper, February 1, 1924.
“There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level”

Source : Interview with Christina Kelly, www.indexmagazine.com. 1996.
“Sympathy is the charm of human life ...”

Source : Grace Aguilar (1858). “The Mother's Recompense: a Sequel to Home Influence”, p.65

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