"The dance of life finds its beginnings in grief......Here a completely new way of living is revealed. It is the way in which pain can be embraced, not out of a desire to suffer, but in the knowledge that something new will be born in the pain."

-- Henri Nouwen

#Pain Quotes #Grief Quotes #Grieving Quotes

“Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point - a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.”
“Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.”
“Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand,”

Source : "Herta Müller: a life in books". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2012.
“Life is short but it is wide. This too shall pass.”

Source : Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”
“Accept what you can not change-change that which is unacceptable.”

Source : Jennifer Fallon (2007). “Wolfblade: Book Four of the Hythrun Chronicles”, p.602, Macmillan
“Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin.”
“I should have asked for credit - but he has no idea how amazing it is that a character that was written as a boy can be equally written for a girl. It's like you said, just write a character as if it were a man, and then turn it and make it into a woman. It's like, we're human beings, after all.”

Source : Source: www.sheknows.com
“I've always dreamed of being a 'Burberry Girl', but know it'll never happen, because I'm not British. Still, you can't stop a girl from dreaming. And owning way too many Burberry coats!”

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