Arafat Yorobo Quotes & Sayings

The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge. — Pat Barker

Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared? — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The predominant cancer metaphor is war. We fight cancer, usually valiantly. We attack tumors and try to annihilate them and bring out our arsenals to do that, and so on. It's us against cancer. This metaphor has come in for its share of criticism within the ethical, psychological and even oncological disciplines. A main concern is that when someone dies of cancer, the message that remains is that that person just hasn't fought hard enough, was not a brave enough soldier against the ultimate foe, did not really want to win.

The cancer-is-war metaphor does not seem to allow space for the idea that in actual war, some soldiers die heroically for the larger good, no matter which side wins. War is death. In the cancer war, if you die, you've lost and cancer has won. The dead are responsible not just for getting cancer, but also for failing to defeat it. — Alanna Mitchell

You can't have everything, I've often noticed it. — Samuel Beckett

The pavilion that seems to intercept divine aid does not cover God but occasionally covers us. God is never hidden, yet sometimes we are, covered by a pavilion of motivations that draw us away from God and make Him seem distant and inaccessible. — Henry B. Eyring

That's a man's vital spot, the helpless thing he loves. ("Jane Brown's Body") — Cornell Woolrich

There's isn't any slight of hand in Spirituality, everything you desire is right there for you to see. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

There is strength in numbers. — Iman Abdulmajid

She understood that grief is not neat and orderly; it does not follow any rules. Time does not heal it. Rather time insists on passing and as it does, grief changes but does not go away. — Ann Hood

In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one's knees". — Pope John Paul II