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“Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us, and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love.”
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“No matter how wonderful things used to be, we cannot live in the past. The joy and excitement we feel here and now are more important.”
― The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
― The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
“Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.”
― Tell the Wolves I'm Home
― Tell the Wolves I'm Home
“But when we really delve into the reasons for why we can’t let something go, there are only two: an attachment to the past or a fear for the future.”
― The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
― The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
“If there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with it. Withdrawal can be a terrible thing when it keeps us awake at night, and watching others forget us sooner than we'd want to be forgotten is no better. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste! (p. 225)”
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