“I needed to pay attention, to be ready to step through and descend into it, whatever it was. It felt archetypal. Something in me was being slain in the fires of pain so that some new thing could be born. I knew it and went with it, and in the alchemy of my pain, like flowers whose seeds open only in the presence of fire, tendrils of something new began to sprout. Pain for me was a Trojan horse, penetrating the protective walls I’d erected around my heart, bearing within it hints of a future I might never have awakened to had I tried to numb myself with busyness.”
― My Life So Far
― My Life So Far
“I don't want my wrinkles taken away - I don't want to look like everyone else.”
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“If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken.”
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“When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.”
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“You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.”
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