"I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary."

-- Ivy Compton-Burnett

#Healing Quotes #Doe Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.”

Source : "Sunbeams: A Book of Quotations". Book by Sy Safransky, 1990.
“But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.”

Source : Piers Anthony (2002). “Crewel Lye”, p.34, Del Rey
“It's Bernoulli not Marconi that flies the airplane.”
“Writing is an outlet, but itâ€™s not an outlet of escape. People keep a journal when they want to escape. I write to rub my face in it.”
“There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.”
“The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but simply, that the modern mind cannot accept it.”

Source : Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (1913). “Some Loose Stones: Being a Consideration of Certain Tendencies in Modern Theology Illustrated by Reference to the Book Called "Foundations,"”
“You have to set new goals every day.”
“I am sorry," I whispered. "I am sorry for all of the ways that I failed you. I am sorry that I was not there to save you, or to die alongside you. I am sorry that I have kept you with me for so long, trapped in my heart, bound in sorrow and remorse. I forgive you too. I forgive you for leaving me, and I forgive you for returning. I forgive you your anger, and your grief. Let this be an end to it.”

Source : John Connolly (2012). “The John Connolly Collection #2: The White Road, The Black Angel, and The Unquiet”, p.1300, Simon and Schuster

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