Loosing Friends Quotes & Sayings

I didn't get to grow up and pull away from her and bitch about her with my friends and confront her about the things I'd wished she'd done differently and then get older and understand that she had done the best she could and realize that what she had done was pretty damn good and take her fully back into my arms again. Her death had obliterated that. It had obliterated me. It had cut me short at the very heigh of my youthful arrogance. It had forced me to instantly grow up and forgive her every motherly fault at the same time that it kept me forever a child, my life both ended and begun in that premature place where we'd left off. She was my mother, but I was motherless. I was trapped by her, but utterly alone. She would always be the empty bowl that no one could full. I'd have to fill it myself again and again and again. — Cheryl Strayed

Who you are doesn't cease to exist because there's nobody there to admire it. — Heidi Priebe

But his love is greater than all our hate and he will not rest until Judas has turned to him, until Satan has turned to him, until dark has turned to him; until we can all, all of us without exception, freely return his look of love with love in our own eyes and hearts. And then, healed, whole, complete but not finished, we swill know the joy of being co-creators with the one to whom we call.
Amen. Even so, come Lord Jesus. — Madeleine L'Engle

'I don't say a Zionist must be insane,' said President Weizmann, 'but it helps if he is.' — George Mikes

I'm not just a reader or a writer; I inhale written words like they're my oxygen. It's not a hobby. It's a passion. People intrigue me. Life intrigues me. I see a story behind every pair of eyes I meet, history in every voice. I'll see someone wearing a smile and wonder what put it there. Words allow me to immerse myself in a whole other world. I get to become a different person. — Nicola Haken

Road to hell paved in unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault. — Ernest Hemingway,

No chemical compound in the atmosphere has a worse reputation than CO2, thanks to the single-minded demonization of this natural and essential atmospheric gas by advocates of government control and energy production. The incredible list of supposed horrors that increasing carbon dioxide will bring the world is pure belief disguised as science. — William Happer

I came to see you two- Words could not express the dull pain of these things. — William Golding

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning. — Paul Gauguin

we all fool ourselves from time to time in order to keep our thoughts and beliefs consistent with what we have already done or decided — Robert B. Cialdini

To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve. — Charlotte Rampling

Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

'Tis pride that pulls the country down. — William Shakespeare

Griffin? You ... okay?"
His face still blank, he looked over at me. His pale eyes were wider than I'd ever seen. "That ... was ... the most ... disgusting thing ... I've ever seen."
My fear vanished. She was okay. I patted his knee and his expression changed. Peace filled his face. "And the most incredible. — S.C. Stephens

Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make. — John Lukacs