"That's how life goes on - protected by……" — M. L. Stedman
"That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame."
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21 Quotes by M. L. Stedman
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- You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.
- History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent.
- Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have…
- No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on earth...
- You don’t think ahead in years or months: you think about this hour, and maybe the next. Anything else is…
- Humans withdraw to their homes, and surrender the night to the creatures that own it: the crickets, the owls, the…
- Sometimes it's good to leave the past in the past.
- It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.
- There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion…
- We live with the decisions we makeThat’s what bravery is. Standing by the consequences of your mistakes.
- Every end is the beginning of something else.
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