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“Our lives are not problems to be solved. We can have meaning and beauty and love, but nothing even close to resolution.”
― No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
― No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
“The fates weren't dangerous because they were evil; the fates were dangerous because they couldn't tell the difference between evil and good.”
― Once Upon a Broken Heart
― Once Upon a Broken Heart
“Trauma is not what happens to you but what happens inside you”
― The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture
― The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture
“A Value-Driven Life
* Knowing the things, ideas, experiences, and people that we value in our life.
* Knowing your values will motivate you and help illuminate your path.
* Your pain, complaints, and distressing feelings often point directly to your values and can be accepted.
* You can choose relationships based on your values and recognize that relationships aren't easy or good all the time.
* Living in accordance with my values will lead me to moments of happiness and struggle. It can all exist at the same time.”
― Toxic Positivity: Keeping It Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy
* Knowing the things, ideas, experiences, and people that we value in our life.
* Knowing your values will motivate you and help illuminate your path.
* Your pain, complaints, and distressing feelings often point directly to your values and can be accepted.
* You can choose relationships based on your values and recognize that relationships aren't easy or good all the time.
* Living in accordance with my values will lead me to moments of happiness and struggle. It can all exist at the same time.”
― Toxic Positivity: Keeping It Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy
“But no matter how carefully we schedule our days, master our emotions, and try to wring our best life now from our better selves, we cannot solve the problem of finitude. We will always want more. We need more. We are carrying the weight of caregiving and addiction, chronic pain and uncertain diagnosis, struggling teenagers and kids with learning disabilities, mental illness and abusive relationships.”
― No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
― No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
All Souls Trilogy Re-read
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Over the next several weeks, we'll be re-reading the first two books of the All Souls Trilogy (A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night) leading up ...more
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