“The secret to a productive life isn’t to complete every task on your to-do list. It’s to remove the ones that don’t belong.”
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“I’ll just tell you what I’ve learned that has helped me,” he said. “Shall I?” “Yes, tell me,” she said, growing still. “I broke my days into separate moments,” he said. “See, it’s true I didn’t have any more to look forward to. But on the other hand, there were these individual moments that I could still appreciate. Like drinking that first cup of coffee in the morning. Working on something fine in my workshop. Watching a baseball game on TV.” She thought that over. “But…” she said. He waited. “But…is that enough?” she asked him. “Well, yes, it turns out that it is,” he said.”
― Clock Dance
― Clock Dance
“Photographs, it seems to me, are both moments in time and bits of memory.”
― 600 Hours of Edward
― 600 Hours of Edward
“Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.”
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“She only nodded. "It's all we are in the end. Our stories.”
― Medicine Walk
― Medicine Walk
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