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grief people empathy
After the Ankara bombings on October 10, people were asked to hold a minute of silence, but many refused. Our society can't even unite in grief to honor the victims. We've lost our empathy. That's maybe the worst. Elif Safak
grief too-much asks
Death is too much to ask of the living. Dodie Smith
grief
When grief is deepest, words are fewest. Ann Voskamp
grief fate earth
It is a grief over the fate of the Earth that contains within it a joyful hope, that we might reclaim this Earth. Susan Griffin
grief loss thinking
In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in the loss of social and economic privilege, alarms so deeply that they are incapable of unprejudiced thought. They seem to themselves to be thinking, with lucidity and fairness, but since they start from the conviction that change must undoubtedly be for the worse or from settled grief at the thought of losing what is old and lovely, they are doing no more than following a logical sequence of ideas from a false premise. Storm Jameson
grief doors separation
Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door. Stevie Smith
grief heart stupidity
I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me. Sri Aurobindo
grief thinking addiction
Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it. Richie Sambora
grief make-happy joy
Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made clean from all matter, have communion with the gods and join them in the governing of the whole world. Yet even if none of this happiness fell to their lot, virtue itself, and the joy and glory of virtue, and the life that is subject to no grief and no master are enough to make happy those who have set themselves to live according to virtue and have achieved it. Sallust
darkness difficult eyes lead light people standing tough
This is a tough job, and it's very difficult to take people out of a darkness and lead them into light. Once they have been standing in light long enough, their eyes will adjust. Jay Garner
dark diamond salesman
The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy. Arthur Miller
darkness shadow boogeyman
We are fascinated by the darkness in ourselves, we are fascinated by the shadow, we are fascinated by the boogeyman. Anthony Hopkins
dark self age
...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. Alfred North Whitehead
dark men race
Let me go: take back thy gift: Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of men, Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance Where all should pause, as is most meet for all? ...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears, And make me tremble lest a saying learnt, In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true? ‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’ - Tithonus Alfred Lord Tennyson
dark negativity chance
If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.
dark years age
Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack. Alexander Fleming
dark soil laboratory
That dark laboratory we call the soil. Aldo Leopold
dark glasses competition
Every guild and trade has its own...private patriotism, which makes it resent all rebellion from within and all competition or criticism from without. ...Vested Interests. The manufacture of optical glass... Aldous Huxley
thinking proud bryan
Superman is there to unite us all, I think. I'm proud of Bryan for respecting that and not making it just about us. Brandon Routh
thinking bridges age
I was trying to get into the business from a young age, but I don't think I really realized how much I loved it until I booked my first movie and found myself in New Zealand for six months filming Bridge to Terabithia. Bailee Madison
thinking challenges would-be
I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge. Ashton Eaton
thinking issues want
A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue. Azar Nafisi
thinking islam needs
I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself.
thinking looks alive
Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want? Ayn Rand
thinking religion trying
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed. Bertrand Russell
thinking too-much next
Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say "yes" and not think too much about the consequences. Jane Goodall
thinking political needs
I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.' James Van Allen