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Benjamin Phillips
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The Light When I die, I hope I don’t see a bright light. Those give me headaches. After a long life, I don’t want to stare into the sun. I want a calm blackness— the same shade that coats the back of my eyelids.
“It's the same with the wound in our hearts. We need to give them our attention so that they can heal. Otherwise the wounds continue to cause us pain. Sometimes for a very long time. We're all going to get hurt. But here's the trick - they also serve an amazing purpose.
When our hearts are wounded that's when they open.
We grow through pain.
We grow through difficult situations.
That's why you have to embrace each and every difficult thing in your life.”
― Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart
When our hearts are wounded that's when they open.
We grow through pain.
We grow through difficult situations.
That's why you have to embrace each and every difficult thing in your life.”
― Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart
“And so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
“While they wished to look out for each other, and to keep tabs on each other, staying in touch took a toll on them, serving as an unsettling reminder of a life not lived, and also they grew less worried each for the other, less worried that the other would need them to be happy, and eventually a month went by without any contact, and then a year, and then a lifetime.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
“To love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
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