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  • #1
    Neale Donald Walsch
    “The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.”
    Neale Donald Walsch
    tags: love

  • #2
    Neale Donald Walsch
    “You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.”
    Neale Donald Walsch, Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends

  • #3
    Neale Donald Walsch
    “Start telling the truth now and never stop. Begin by telling the truth to yourself about yourself. Then tell the truth to yourself about someone else. Then tell the truth about yourself to another. Then tell the truth about another to that other. Finally, tell the truth to everyone about everything. These are the 5 levels of truth telling. This is the five-fold path to freedom.”
    Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 2

  • #4
    Jodi Picoult
    “Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.”
    Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

  • #5
    Shauna Niequist
    “I've spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won't leave, and fearing that it's a matter of time before they figure me out and go.”
    Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way

  • #6
    Chelsea Handler
    “Back to my midlife crisis. There is a line I had written down from Viktor Frankl’s memoir about surviving the Holocaust, Man’s Search for Meaning, that stopped me cold when I read it: “it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.” I had never thought about what life expected from me. I had only thought about what I expected from life. That was a book putter-downer. It was a look up at the sky and wonder Where the fuck have I been all my life? moment.”
    Chelsea Handler, Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and You Too!

  • #7
    Geneen Roth
    “. . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere else . . . . Wanting life to be different from what it is. That's also called leaving without leaving. Dying before you die. It's as if there is a part of you that so rails against being shattered by love that you shatter yourself first. (p. 44)”
    Geneen Roth, Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

  • #8
    Geneen Roth
    “Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened.”
    Geneen Roth

  • #9
    James Baldwin
    “Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”
    James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

  • #10
    Langston Hughes
    “I loved my friend
    He went away from me
    There's nothing more to say
    The poem ends,
    Soft as it began-
    I loved my friend.”
    Langston Hughes

  • #11
    Langston Hughes
    “I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”
    Langston Hughes

  • #12
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #13
    Marguerite Duras
    “Don’t be afraid anymore. Not of anyone. Not of anything. Nothing. Ever again. Listen to me: not ever again.”
    Marguerite Duras, The North China Lover

  • #14
    C. JoyBell C.
    “Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #15
    C. JoyBell C.
    “There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #16
    Stephen Fry
    “If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

    Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”
    Stephen Fry



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