Jan Chen
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“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”
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“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
― Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life
― Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life
“I have no mission. No one has.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“There is no perfection only life”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
― The Second Sex
― The Second Sex
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