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Very good book for people pleasing people. Because , I was recently in a situation where I was taking care of someone who was terminally ill and solo. I found myself overwhelmed for a whole host of reasons to many to list. I reached out to his family
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“We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.”
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“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
“When loneliness is a constant state of being, it harkens back to a childhood wherein neglect and abandonment were the landscape of life.”
― Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
― Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
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