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#1

“Perhaps we become accustomed to our grief and, as it becomes increasingly familiar, increasingly part of the emotional landscape, it becomes a dullness. But there is no closure, no forgetting. One mourns those one has loved who have died until one joins them. It happens soon enough.”
― David Rieff, Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir

tags: grief-and-loss

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#2

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
― John Muir

tags: animals, caring, earth, forests, nature, plants, trees, wilderness

3670 likes

#3

“Male and Female Compatibility Rules: a. She's right. b. He's really thinking about nothing. Really.”
― Roger Rosenblatt, Rules for Aging: Resist Normal Impulses, Live Longer, Attain Perfection

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#4

“The heart is the toughest part of the body.
Tenderness is in the hands.”
― Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us: The Achingly Sensual Political Poetry from a Journalist in El Salvador

tags: inspirational, love

1644 likes

#5

“Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.”
― Elizabeth McCracken

tags: grief

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#6

“This is why you need everyone you know after a disaster, because there is not one right response. It's what paralyzes people around the grief-stricken, of course, the idea that there are right things to say and wrong things and it's better to say nothing than something clumsy.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination

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#7

“I want a book that acknowledges that life goes on, but death goes on too, that a person who is dead is a long, long story. You move on from it, , but the death will never disappear from view.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination

tags: grief-and-loss

10 likes

#8

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

tags: beauty, body-image, imperfections, self-acceptance

4445 likes

#9

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

tags: contentment

4350 likes

#10

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude

11839 likes

#11

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

4233 likes

#12

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

7686 likes

#13

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

3223 likes

#14

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

3260 likes

#15

“A map says to you.
Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not...
I am the earth in the palm of your hand.”
― Beryl Markham

1405 likes

#16

“Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life.”
― Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

tags: advice, stars

815 likes

#17

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

tags: aspiration, assurance, beauty, clouds, color, conviction, inspirational, maturity, sunset

5314 likes

#18

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

tags: books

3370 likes

#19

“Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
― Jonathan Kellerman

2437 likes

#20

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey

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