is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.
“When fortune smiles, you immediately start to worry about how it will end. Why not enjoy the moment?”
― The Paris Novel
― The Paris Novel
“It’s absolutely necessary to build healthy boundaries with people who’ve hurt and abused you in life, but boundaries are only one part of it. You can build walls to keep out everyone who’s ever hurt you, but you’ll still be dying alone inside your own castle if you’re not doing the work, your work, to get healed.”
― Radical Love: Learning to Accept Yourself and Others
― Radical Love: Learning to Accept Yourself and Others
“It sounds so much better in French.” “Most things do.”
― The Paris Novel
― The Paris Novel
“Bookshops made her anxious. Each volume was like an eager animal at the pound, striving for attention, hoping for a home. “Take me, take me,” they called out, until the chorus grew so loud she had to turn and flee.”
― The Paris Novel
― The Paris Novel
“You might do things with the notion that you’re helping others for the sake of helping them, but what if that’s yet another strategy of yours to “get” something, and the only reason it’s so draining is because it never quite gets you the thing you’re really after?”
― Wise as Fu*k: Simple Truths to Guide You Through the Sh*tstorms of Life
― Wise as Fu*k: Simple Truths to Guide You Through the Sh*tstorms of Life
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