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“But life cannot be experienced one emotion at a time. It is a tapestry of sensation, a braided rope of feeling. We must allow for reflection even when we suffer. We must reach for compassion even when we triumph. If you spend your days waiting for your sorrows to end so that you might finally live” – he shook his head – “you will die an impatient man.”
― Tahereh Mafi, All This Twisted Glory

“Is that what life is—missing out in your twenties because you have no money, then missing out in your forties because you have no time?”
― Sophie Cousens, The Good Part

“Memories are a second heart. After you’re gone, they beat inside the people you’ve left behind.”
― L.J. Shen, My Dark Desire

“Strength without control is just destruction”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods