"It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order."

-- Aimee Bender

#Life Quotes #Sadness Quotes #Loss Quotes

“The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 340-42, The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius (1795-1822), chapter XV, 1922.
“Men are just as willing as women to marry up, and life is now giving them the opportunity... So, women, own up to your accomplishments, buy him a drink, and tell him what you really do.”

Source : "Why Men Are Attracted to High-Earning Women" by Liza Mundy, ideas.time.com. March 15, 2012.
“I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I LOVE YOU. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I.”
“What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?”

Source : Nathaniel Hawthorne (2016). “The Snow Image: The Devil World”, p.47, 谷月社
“I'm a natural born sniper.”
“I love you. You are my heart beating outside of my chest.”
“I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.”
“It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true. They may be sound chemically, but that does not make them sound logically. And hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms.”

Source : John Locke, David Wootton (1993). “Locke: Political Writings”, p.270, Hackett Publishing

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