emily

“accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be”
― Emily Klemetson

“Come, see real flowers of this painful world.

-Bashō”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

“Anyway. Nothing can be done now. The past is like the Gran Cavallo and you can't fix the Gran Cavallo, right? I mean, sure, who doesn't fantasize about drawing in the rest of the horse, and maybe the sky around the horse. But what would the painting be worth then? Absolutely nothing. So it is what it is. Imperfect, unfinished, forever. We just have to move on, call it a masterpiece, even if it's not, and start working on a new goddamned painting.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“Pain will subside only when we acknowledge it and care for it. Addressing it with love and compassion would take only a minuscule percentage of the energy it takes to fight it, but approaching pain head-on is terrifying. Most of us were not taught to recognize pain, name it, and be with it. Our families and culture believed that the vulnerability that it takes to acknowledge pain was weakness, so we were taught anger, rage, and denial instead. But what we know now is that when we deny our emotion, we can rebuild and find our way through the pain.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness