"Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Grief Quotes #Choices Quotes #Overcoming Quotes

“I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can supply material for literary art; for manifest reasons they lend themselves to artistic representation far more readily than those of the natural sciences; but to clothe the story of human society in a literary dress is no more the part of a historian as a historian, than it is the part of an astronomer as an astronomer to present in an artistic shape the story of the stars.”
“RJD was pretty much heavy metal personified, a tiny 5-foot-4-inch sorcerer with a mangy mane, demonic eyes and sly grin, all coupled to a simply huge, operatic voice, a diminutive powerhouse who prowled the stage like a feline elf and who was, it turns out, also finely intelligent and well spoken, an actual gentleman in a genre known all too well for its bombastic, monosyllabic doltbuckets. A rare thing indeed.”

Source : "All kneel before the devil horns". www.sfgate.com. May 19, 2010.
“The past does not haunt us. We haunt the past. We allow our minds to focus in that direction. We open memories and examine them. We reexperience emotions we felt during the painful events we experienced because we are recalling them in as much detail as we can.”

Source : Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.108, Macmillan
“Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.”

Source : Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.133, Jerome K. Jerome
“I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.”

Source : Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting Within You”, p.21, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.”
“We've still got half of the world that don't know what I look like.”

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