Her eyes had gone wide. “Books have feelings?” “Books are feelings,” he replied simply. “They exist to make us feel. To connect us to what’s inside, sometimes to things we don’t even know are there. It only makes sense that some of what we
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“Our contract with life is a contract that is brokered with fragility, and with sadness, and with anxiety. And if we’re going to authentically and meaningfully be in this world, we cannot focus on one dimension of life and expect that focusing on that dimension is going to then give us a well-rounded life.”
― Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life
― Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life
“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“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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