“some lessons have to be experienced before they can be understood.”
“That's the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between two people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people's.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.”
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“We expect one person to give us what once an entire village used to provide, and we live twice as long.”
― The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity
― The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity
“The therapist's worldview is in itself isolating. Seasoned therapists view relationships differently, they sometimes lose patience with social ritual and bureaucracy, they cannot abide the fleeting shallow encounters and small talk of many social gatherings.”
― The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
― The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
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