"All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch, the lost children, on this the suicided parents, here the beloved mentally ill siblings. When something terrible happens, you discover all of the sudden that you have a new set of relatives, people with whom you can speak in the shorthand of cousins."

-- Elizabeth McCracken

#Cousin Quotes #Children Quotes #Sibling Quotes

“I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.”
“I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.”
“Passion requires focused direction, and that direction must come from three other areas: your purpose, your talents, and your needs.”
“Is there an answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people?...The response would beâ€¦to forgive the world for not being perfect, to forgive God for not making a better world, to reach out to the people around us, and to go on living despite it allâ€¦no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it has happened.”

Source : Maya Banks (2012). “Echoes at Dawn”, p.207, Penguin
“It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.”
“For he who has died has been freed from sin...14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.”
“I am continually calming the restless scanning of my rational mind in order to perceive the finer energies that enable me to unitively merge with everything around me.”
“A stochastic process is about the results of convolving probabilities-which is just what management is about, as well.”

Source : "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 58), 1968.

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