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Melanie
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‘A memory is a place you visit, not where you live. Happiness therefore is not a permanent state of being, but more a moment in time.
“We call them feelings because we feel them. They don't start in our minds, they arise in our bodies.”
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“Over the years I’ve come to feel that the way people respond to us has less to do with what we’ve done and more to do with who they are.”
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“In a way, an autobiography seems to me like a household book of
accounts – what has been acquired, to what purpose has it been put,
was too much paid for it and did it teach you anything? How much
has been learned by experience? Have I discovered where I am useful
and useless, how I am nourished and starved?”
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accounts – what has been acquired, to what purpose has it been put,
was too much paid for it and did it teach you anything? How much
has been learned by experience? Have I discovered where I am useful
and useless, how I am nourished and starved?”
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“You told me once you forget you are a woman, and I understand it now – you think to be a woman is to be weak – you think ours is a sisterhood of suffering! Perhaps so, but doesn’t it take greater strength to walk a mile in pain than seven miles in none? You are a woman, and must begin to live like one. By which I mean: have courage.”
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