Sandra Cisneros Quotes
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My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.
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I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.
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Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
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I know I got to do something that's one in a million, to escape a refugee camp, to come to this country and have so many doors open for me. So I want to go back and make a difference and give motivation or hope to all the kids that never got to leave or have the privilege that I did.
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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
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God's not complicated - He's really not. And He helps people in their everyday life so that they can get better in relationships, in their job situations, in getting through grief.
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Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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How long can this situation last and be tolerated? When Imam Ali, Commander of the Faithful, heard that an anklet was forcefully removed from the feet of a Jewish woman by the invaders in one of the frontier cities under his rule, he said, 'If a man dies from grief because of this act, he should not be reprimanded.'
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Why do we weep in grief,' the aunt wondered. 'Dogs, deer, birds sufferent with dry eyes and in silence. The dumb suffering of animals. Probably a survival technique.
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The poet walked alone in a cold late rain,And thought his grief was like the crying of sea-birds;For his lover was dead, he never would love again.
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The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
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There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.
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Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.
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Juilliard. It was a brutal and beautiful experience.
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In medicine, there's a fairly large but still finite body of knowledge that you need at hand for most of your daily work. It takes a few years to learn it, but once it's there, it's there. With writing, on the other hand, every new book - indeed, every new story - is a fresh and terrifying reinvention of everything.
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I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I find that quite hard. And I always wear high heels on stage, which can be painful.
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Like all guests, after a fortnight, grief is best beyond the door.
