“But that's just it; I can either focus on what I have lost, or what I have gained, and I choose the latter.”
― Letting Go of Perfect: Women, Expectations, and Authenticity
― Letting Go of Perfect: Women, Expectations, and Authenticity
“Death doesn't discriminate between the sinners and the saints, it takes and it takes and it takes, and we keep living anyway....”
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“Habit is a vain and treacherous goddess. She lets nothing disrupt her rule. She smothers one desire after another: the desire to travel, the desire for a better job or a new love. She stops us from living as we would like, because habit prevents us from asking ourselves whether we continue to enjoy doing what we do.”
― The Little Paris Bookshop
― The Little Paris Bookshop
“what is grief but love persevering”
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