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More often than not, I feel as if nothing is changing, as if I’m still stuck where I was last week and the week before that. But in reality, there’s unseen change happening; there’s growth beneath the surface.
“It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.”
― The Two Towers
― The Two Towers
“To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.”
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“Eventually, I developed the discernment to spend energy in friendships that thrive--some I already had and new ones as well. And it didn't take finding perfect women without issues or becoming one myself. My friendships today are with imperfect women like me who have enough self-awareness that they can both give and receive the most important thing in any relationship: grace.”
― All My Friends Have Issues: Building Remarkable Relationships with Imperfect People
― All My Friends Have Issues: Building Remarkable Relationships with Imperfect People
“I love you. I would die to protect you. I would make you hate me to keep you safe because damn it, Avery—some things are too precious to gamble.”
― The Final Gambit
― The Final Gambit
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