#pat

Grief changes shape, but it never ends. ↗

— Keanu Reeves

#changes #ends #grief #never #shape

Sweet Evelyn, I think, I should have loved you better. Possessing perfect knowledge I hover above him as he hacks me to bits. I see his rough childhood. I see his mother doing something horrid to him with a broomstick. I see the hate in his heart and the people he had yet to kill before pneumonia gets him at eighty-three. I see the dead kid's mom unable to sleep, pounding her fists against her face in grief at the moment I was burying her son's hand. I see the pain I've caused. I see the man I could have been, and the man I was, and then everything is bright and new and keen with love and I sweep through Sam's body, trying to change him, trying so hard, and feeling only hate and hate, solid as stone. ↗

— George Saunders

#compassion #empathy #forgiveness #hatred #change

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea. ↗

— Schuyler Colfax

#idea #lives #martyrs #patriotism #their

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. ↗

— Eugene V. Debs

#am #citizen #country #earth #fight

In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients. ↗

— Hans Eysenck

#conclusions #data #facilitates #fail #freudian

The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#around #back #done #golf #itself

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#advancing #blood #corrupt #draw #fear

Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation. ↗

— Nazim Hikmet

#beyond #example #for example #great #i

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#hood #making #men #only #path

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football. ↗

— Michael Strahan

#football #once #step #sympathetic #you