"Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn't look like anything, that's what is so strange. It just fits in."

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Source : Jackie Kay (2016). “Trumpet: Picador Classic”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

Jackie Kay

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“Love has a hundred gentle ends.”

Source : Leonora Speyer (1926). “Fiddler's Farewell”
“When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.”
“The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.”
“When pain ends, gain ends too.”
“Every great movement and which the conservative movement is, of course, every great movement ends up being a little bit sclerotic and dusty after a time and I think they need new fusion of energy.”
“Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.”
“A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can.”

Source : Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife”, p.144, Simon and Schuster
“To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.”

Source : "Of Pandas and Peas: Saving the Diversity Within Species". www.huffingtonpost.com.

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