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If you are honest, people may deceive you. Be honest anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfishness. Be kind anyway. All the good you do today will be forgotten by others tomorrow. Do good anyway.
What you create, others can destroy. Create anyway. Because in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and anyone else anyway.
“The only thing the sport gives us are moments. But what the hell is life, Peter, apart from moments?”
There’s a thin line between living and surviving,
Religion is something between you and other people; it’s full of interpretations and theories and opinions. But faith… that’s just between you and God.
Loneliness is an invisible ailment.
But isolating yourself happens faster than you might think: the days blur together when you live more on the inside than outside, and the years continued to pass by on the other side of the street while she desperately tried to make everything inside the Bearskin and the apartment above it carry on exactly as it was when he died.
Bitterness can be corrosive; it can rewrite your memories as if it were scrubbing a crime scene clean, until in the end you only remember what suits you of its causes.
It doesn’t take a lot to be able to let go of your child. It takes everything.
He had a sense of humor that only his players were allowed to see, and it made them feel special. Jokes are powerful like that, they can be both inclusive and exclusive. Can create both an Us and a Them.
She will never understand how some people can prefer other people to animals.
