"Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled beyond our grasp."

-- Stephen Levine

#Grief Quotes #Loss Quotes #Rope Quotes

“I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.”
“I have a long-term interest in the humanities.”
“Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.”
“I've talked to a few writers who have had childhood illnesses. The sense of convalescence - the feeling that you're waiting to become a real person - is quite an interesting thing. You're seeing all of your friends doing amazing things and you're just there, in a void, feeling a bit stupid. I wouldn't be able to say what I'd have been like without it, but maybe I'd be incredibly high-powered and successful. It also forced me to spend most of my time in my imagination.”

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“If we are going to be happy and have any chance at growing then we must learn how to forgive others ... and ourselves.”
“Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.”
“As we shave it happens that we cut ourself with the razor blade; this does not mean that we must not shave in the morning any longer. It is the same thing for yoga.”
“God's people should be baptized because God commanded it, not because some church requires it.”

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