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“Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go... But, of course, ceasing to be "in love" need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense — love as distinct from "being in love" — is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriage) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God... "Being in love" first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. It is on this love that the engine of marriage is run: being in love was the explosion that started it.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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#2

“It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

tags: dreams, dreams-inspirational, ideas, vulnerability

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#3

“When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel allowed to celebrate. Instead, the feeling of victory is replaced with anxiety that it will happen again, and with shame and vulnerability when you see how your illness affected your family, your work, everything left untouched while you struggled to survive. We come back to life thinner, paler, weaker … but as survivors. Survivors who don’t get pats on the back from coworkers who congratulate them on making it. Survivors who wake to more work than before because their friends and family are exhausted from helping them fight a battle they may not even understand. I hope to one day see a sea of people all wearing silver ribbons as a sign that they understand the secret battle, and as a celebration of the victories made each day as we individually pull ourselves up out of our foxholes to see our scars heal, and to remember what the sun looks like.”
― Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

tags: depressed, depression, fear, mental-health, mental-health-stigma, mental-illness, recovery, recovery-quotes, shame, stigma, stigmatized, survivors

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#4

“Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: belief, childlikeness, children, confidence, cynic, deceit, discernment, faith, fear, fearful, fearless, fearlessness, happiness, heart, honesty, humility, innocence, intuition, judgment, kids, lies, love, naive, optimist, positive, positive-thinking, psychology, pure-heart, purity, reliability, selflessness, skeptic, success, suspicion, trust, trustful, trustworthiness, truth, understanding, understanding-others, vulnerability, zeal

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#5

“Loving someone can be hard at times. You risk a lot when you love - your heart and soul, at the least. Love is the most important and most rewarding investment you can make in another person.”
― J.E.B. Spredemann, A Secret of the Heart

tags: heart, heart-and-soul, importance, investment, love, loving, loving-someone, others, risk, soul, vulnerability

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#6

“One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: alone, comfort, communication, community, community-service, compassion, empathy, encourage, encouragement, give, giving, help, helping-others, helping-out, kindness, letting-them-in, lonelyness, lost, love, missions, novels, reaching-out, selflessness, service, share, sharing, stories, tears-together, transparency, vulnerability

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#7

“I admire strength but I fall in love with vulnerability.
I admire strong people. People who stand for what they believe ,
people who are not easily moved by temptations, people who fight their own feelings for their values,
but succumb to a mere thought of pain to others.
But I absolutely fall in love with them when even for a minute they give away,
they break down and cry, the heart takes over,
in that moment they are most human,
in that moment they take my heart away.”
― Drishti Bablani, Uns

tags: being-human, drishti-bablani, i-admire-strength, i-love-vulnerability, vulnerability, wordions, wordions-com

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#8

“The biggest blocker to happiness is "the fear of vulnerability". Happiness cannot enter a caged heart.”
― Drishti Bablani

tags: blocker-to-happiness, drishti-bablani, fear-of-vulnerability, happiness, heart, vulnerability, wordions

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#9

“Once people see you cry, it's like they own part of you. It's like you ripped a hole in yourself, and they saw through whatever armor you had on, got a good long view of all the screaming alien goop underneath.”
― Stefan Bachmann, A Drop of Night

tags: cry, crying, people, screaming, seeing, vulnerability, vulnerable

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#10

“When I'm triggered, I think, "This will last forever" or "What if this lasts forever?" I get thoughts about how I should give up, run away, hide, protect myself. These thoughts, I cannot change. What I can change is how I respond to them. Will I unconditionally believe these ideas, or will I accept them as side effects of the temporary experience of pain? Will I act on each thought that arises in the burning fire, or will I hold myself gently and say, "It'll be okay. I know it hurts. I love you"? My power lies in these choices.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

tags: choice, emotional-healing, emotional-triggers, emotions, healing, healing-the-past, mind, pain, ptsd, self-healing, self-love, self-soothing, suffering, vulnerability

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“It is not depression or anxiety that truly hurts us. It is our active resistance against these states of mind and body. If you wake up with low energy, hopeless thoughts, and a lack of motivation - that is a signal from you to you. That is a sure sign that something in your mind or in your life is making you sick, and you must attend to that signal. But what do most people do? They hate their depressed feelings. They think "Why me?" They push them down. They take a pill. And so, the feelings return again and again, knocking at your door with a message while you turn up all the noise in your cave, refusing to hear the knocks. Madness. Open the door. Invite in depression. Invite anxiety. Invite self-hatred. Invite shame. Hear their message. Give them a hug. Accept their tirades as exaggerated mistruths typical of any upset person. Love your darkness and you shall know your light.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

tags: anxiety, darkness, depression, healing, light, medicating, medication, mental-health, self-acceptance, self-awareness, self-compassion, self-love, shame, understanding-emotions

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