"Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shock, no drama, just the lifting of a plank or two in a simple wooden gate in a clearing. Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow."

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Source : Mark Helprin (1991). “A Soldier of the Great War”, Harcourt

Mark Helprin

#Death Quotes #Prayer Quotes #Pain Quotes

“I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
“I called my mother up when they announced the Nobel Prize, waiting until 7 in the morning. She said, "That's nice - and when are you going to see me next?”

Source : "The Science Guy". www.nytimes.com. April 16, 2009.
“A thousand kindnesses do not make up for a thousand blows.”

Source : Louise Bogan, Ruth Limmer (1980). “Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic”, Viking Pr
“I will live the life I choose.”
“I'm a slave to the culture, so I see an Audi, a Denali, or an Escalade, my neighbor got the four-door Porsche. I have a really nice truck. But it's a Durango and I like frontin'! I like to ride by and show off.”
“What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.”
“The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state...Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.”

Source : James Allen (2016). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.7, Xist Publishing

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