“Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just... start.”
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“When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast and limitless.”
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“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
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“I want to live so densely. lush. and slow in the next few years, that a year becomes ten years, and my past becomes only a page in the book of my life.”
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“But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.”
― Notebooks, 1935-1951
― Notebooks, 1935-1951
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