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“And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore.”
― Anne Lamott, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

tags: depression, healing

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“Joy is the best makeup.”
― Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

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“يا موطناً في ثراه غاب سادته* لوكان يخجل من باعوك ما باعوا”
― إبراهيم طوقان, الأعمال الشعرية الكاملة: إبراهيم طوقان

tags: arabic-poetry, palestine

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“يا قلبها..
يا من عرفت الحب يوما عندها
يا من حملت الشوق نبضا
في حنايا.. صدرها
إني سكنتك ذات يوم
كنت بيتي.. كان قلبي بيتها
كل الذي في البيت أنكرني
و صار العمر كهفا.. بعدها
لو كنت أعرف كيف أنسى حبها؟
لو كنت أعرف كيف أطفئ نارها..
قلبي يحدثني يقول بأنها
يوما.. سترجع بيتها؟!
أترى سترجع بيتها؟
ماذا أقول.. لعلني.. و لعلها”
― فاروق جويدة

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“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
― Anne Lamott

tags: grief, loss, recovery

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