“The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.”
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“We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.”
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“Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.”
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Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.”
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“If you want to lift a hundred pounds, you don't expect to succeed the first time. You start with a lighter weight and work up little by little. You actually fail to lift a hundred pounds, every day, until the day you succeed. But it is in the days when you are exerting yourself that the growth is occurring.”
― The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
― The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
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