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“Nobody was ever replaced in life, no hole completely filled or loss totally healed. You didn't need a medical degree to know that the human body really wasn't stronger in the broken places. Like any bone, the cracks would always show if you looked hard enough.”

Ifs Knows Needs Humans Hard Enough Shows Body Loss Broken Degrees Stronger Filled Bones Medical Holes Cracks Replaced Human Body Healed Healed You

Book:Come Home: A Novel

Source: Come Home: A Novel

“The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to a lesser degree, of the aesthetic emotions. Most of us have forgotten that we are not only brain and will, senses and feelings; we are also spirit. Modern man has for the most part lost touch with the truest and highest aspect of himself; and the result of this inward alienation can be seen all too plainly in his restlessness, his lack of identity and his loss of hope.”

“The greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling dangers are horrid, when the loss of reputation is the inevitable consequence of ill success.”

Ifs Want Success Loss Danger Degrees Glory Consequence Ill Reputation Inevitable

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“[The loss-of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its home base.”

Home Moving Political Loss Military Degrees Distance Units Diminish Political Power Home Base

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“On some level we trade passion for security, that's trading one illusion for another. It's a matter of degree. We can't live in constant fear, but we can't live without any. The fear of loss is essential to love.”

Matter Passion Loss Levels Security Essentials Degrees Illusion Trade Constant Trading

Author:Esther Perel