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There are some things you learn best in calm, some in storm. —WILLA CATHER
“Life is a gift full of riddles in which suffering and happiness are inextricably intertwined. Any attempt to have one without the other was simply bound to fail.”
― The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
― The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
“...that life is interwoven with suffering. That in every life without exception, illnesses are unavoidable. That we wil age, and that we cannot elude death. These are the laws and conditions of human existence, U May had explained to her. Laws that apply to everyone, everywhere in the world...”
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“I have often wondered what was the source of her beauty, her radiance. It’s not the size of one’s nose, the color of one’s skin, the shape of one’s lips or eyes that make one beautiful or ugly. So what is it? Can you, as a woman, tell me?
I shook my head.
I will tell you: It’s love. Love makes us beautiful. Do you know a single person who loves and is loved, who is loved unconditionally and who, at the same time, is ugly? There’s no need to ponder the question. There is no such person.”
― The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
I shook my head.
I will tell you: It’s love. Love makes us beautiful. Do you know a single person who loves and is loved, who is loved unconditionally and who, at the same time, is ugly? There’s no need to ponder the question. There is no such person.”
― The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
“Let them look all they want. Let them go ahead and look at me, the luckiest mother alive.”
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“And so there must be in life something like a catastrophic turning point, when the world as we know ceases to exist. A moment that transform us into a different person from one heartbeat to the next.”
― The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
― The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
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