"I wanted something that I could look back on and say, yes, you were fighting too, you burned to be alive, and whatever failure or accident of nature caused you to be killed could be explained by something other than the fact that I'd missed your giving up."

-- Kevin Powers

#Giving Up Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Facts Quotes

“My ambition cannot be stopped!”
“For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.”
“And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection.”

Source : Irving Layton (2012). “A Wild Peculiar Joy: The Selected Poems”, p.23, McClelland & Stewart
“The odds are lousy that I actually said something attributed to me.”
“Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.”
“The greatest quest in life is to reach one's potential.”
“The more two people open to each other, the more this wide-openness also brings to the surface all the obstacles to it: their deepest, darkest wounds, their desperation and mistrust, and their rawest emotional trigger points. Just as the sun's warmth causes clouds to arise by prompting the earth to release its moisture, so love's pure openness activates the thick clouds of our emotional wounding, the tight places where we are shut down, where we live in fear and resist love.”
“It is possible to care too much. It is possible to believe that you will never be as good as anyone else. And it is possible to let these things take over.”

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