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“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”
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“I will have longevity in a relationship like that, but my
guess is that I will never grow that tree, and it’s OK,
because I’m going to grow a more varied garden. So I’m
realizing that there isn’t necessarily going to be one long
love for me, but maybe a series of shorter love stories. Just
as making peace with what I don’t get is going to be a
series of acceptances.”
― Conversations on Love
guess is that I will never grow that tree, and it’s OK,
because I’m going to grow a more varied garden. So I’m
realizing that there isn’t necessarily going to be one long
love for me, but maybe a series of shorter love stories. Just
as making peace with what I don’t get is going to be a
series of acceptances.”
― Conversations on Love
“It was a true stroke of genius to measure suffering by degrees, to assign
different categories and limits. Some say that pain lasts forever and never
runs out; but I believe that past the 10th degree of my scale, all that’s left is
the memory of pain, hurting only in recollection. At the beginning of my
training I believed it was best to ascend the scale gradually. Very quickly I
found this to be a poor experience. The knowledge and perfection of pain
requires flexibility, a wise application of its categories and nuances, and an
arbitrary rehearsal of its degrees. To move with ease from the 3rd to the 8th
degree, from the 4th to the 1st, from the 2nd to the 7th, and then run
through them in rigorous ascending and descending order . . . I hate to
interrupt this interesting explanation, but there’s water beneath my feet.”
― The Houseguest and Other Stories
different categories and limits. Some say that pain lasts forever and never
runs out; but I believe that past the 10th degree of my scale, all that’s left is
the memory of pain, hurting only in recollection. At the beginning of my
training I believed it was best to ascend the scale gradually. Very quickly I
found this to be a poor experience. The knowledge and perfection of pain
requires flexibility, a wise application of its categories and nuances, and an
arbitrary rehearsal of its degrees. To move with ease from the 3rd to the 8th
degree, from the 4th to the 1st, from the 2nd to the 7th, and then run
through them in rigorous ascending and descending order . . . I hate to
interrupt this interesting explanation, but there’s water beneath my feet.”
― The Houseguest and Other Stories
“The
truth is it’s hard not to have found a relationship and it’s
brave to go into a relationship and it’s hard to find one and
then to lose it. All of us, at some point, have to learn how to
get our hearts broken.”
― Conversations on Love
truth is it’s hard not to have found a relationship and it’s
brave to go into a relationship and it’s hard to find one and
then to lose it. All of us, at some point, have to learn how to
get our hearts broken.”
― Conversations on Love
“Now I
realize that what these answers point to is that, although
you have to work at a relationship, you shouldn’t have to
work at convincing someone to love you. Either they do or
they don’t. The loving and being-loved part should be easy.”
― Conversations on Love
realize that what these answers point to is that, although
you have to work at a relationship, you shouldn’t have to
work at convincing someone to love you. Either they do or
they don’t. The loving and being-loved part should be easy.”
― Conversations on Love
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