"No matter how you look at it, all the emotions connected with love are not really immortal; like all other passions in life, they are bound to fade at some point. The trick is to convert love into some lasting friendship that overcomes the fading passion."

-- Harold Pinter

#Life Quotes #Passion Quotes #Overcoming Quotes

“Doubting what you see is a very odd experience. And doubting what you remember is a little less odd than doubting what you see. But it's also a pretty odd experience, because some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them, and that happens to be the case even for memories that are not true.”
“From the first time heâ€™d met her, heâ€™d sensed an air of contradiction about her. She was very much a woman, but still retained a waiflike quality. She could be brash, and at times deliberately suggestive, yet she was painfully shy. She was incredibly easy to get along with, yet she had few friends. She was a talented artist in her own right, but so self-conscious about her work that she rarely completed a piece and preferred to work with other peopleâ€™s art and ideas...”
“Though my sight be lost, I do not yet lose my faith: when I can no longer see, I can still believe.”
“When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.”
“As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of insects, as one gazes at the shining colors of flowers, doth one become dumbstruck before the Kingdom of the Creator.”
“From her dubious tone alone, I could see how Karin had no idea how terrifying words spoken quietly could be. How words chosen precisely to wreak maximum damage ticked like a bomb in your head, but exploded in your heart hours later, leaving you scarred and changed.”
“The Atlanta Hawks are a bunch of guys who would prefer to pass kidney stones than pass a basketball.”
“I think there's so much feeling among young girls where they feel like they have to be this perfect thing - and they don't. Perfect people don't exist. Sometimes people need to be told it.”

Source : "A Few Questions For One Direction". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. December 9, 2012.

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