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“To make the pain useful. The longing, the fear, the heartache and dread. The ability to see these broken pieces of yourself like cracks in your armor through which you are better able to see the world: too broken to be normal, just broken enough to see beauty.”
― Hollywood Park
― Hollywood Park
“Live while you’re living, friends.”
― The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
― The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
“Dying has taught me a great deal about living—about facing hard truths consciously, about embracing the suffering as well as the joy.”
― The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
― The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
“The worth of a person’s life lies not in the number of years lived; rather it rests on how well that person has absorbed the lessons of that life, how well that person has come to understand and distill the multiple, messy aspects of the human experience.”
― The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
― The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
“That’s the whole magic trick of an essence brought to life by a song, to become an artist when you feel broken and you’ve decided to turn it into beauty. To make the pain useful. The longing, the fear, the heartache and dread, the ability to see these broken pieces of yourself like cracks in an armor through which you are better able to see the world: too broken to be normal, just broken enough to see beauty.”
― Hollywood Park
― Hollywood Park
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