“When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.” ―John Irving
Quotes
I Never…
“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.” –Frida Kahlo
Count
“In your entire life, you can probably count your true friends on one hand. Maybe even on one finger. Those are the friends you need to cherish, and I wouldn’t trade one of them for a hundred of the other kind. I’d rather be completely alone than with a bunch of people who aren’t real. People who are just passing time.” ―Sarah Ockler
We Live In A Culture
“We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.” ―Dallas Willard
Freedom Begins…
“Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it’s time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.” ―Bill Moyers
The Biggest Wall
“The biggest wall you have to climb is the one you build in your mind: Never let your mind talk you out of your dreams, trick you into giving up. Never let your mind become the greatest obstacle to success. To get your mind on the right track, the rest will follow.” ―Roy T. Bennett
This Is An Important Lesson
“This is an important lesson to remember when you’re having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year. Things will change: you won’t feel this way forever. Sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most. I believe you can’t feel real joy unless you’ve felt heartache. You can’t have a sense of victory unless you know what it means to fail. You can’t know what it’s like to feel holy until you know what it’s like to feel really fucking evil. And you can’t be birthed again until you’ve died.” ―Kelly Cutrone
We Become…
“We become so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that at last, we are disguised to ourselves.” –Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
The Greatest Test Of Courage
“The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart.” –Robert G. Ingersoll
The Family
The family was not simply the sum of the connection created by a large, extended set of relations…a family…was a name, a material and symbolic patrimony, and a form of stakeholding in America… “describing a total lineage, past, present, and future.” –Eric Homberger
Can you name the book that opens up with this quote, but is not attached to the author of the quote?
Written by LISA MARINO-Molchanova 