Deanna
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“You can be a drunk. You can be a survivor of abuse. You can be an ex-con. You can be a homeless person. You can lose all your money or your job or a husband or a wife, or the worst thing imaginable, a child. You can lose your marbles. You can be standing inside your own failure, a small sad stone in your throat, and still you are beautiful, your story is worth hearing, because you--you rare and phenomenal misfit--are the only one in the world who can tell the story the way that only you can.”
― The Misfit's Manifesto
― The Misfit's Manifesto
“You carry your mother in every cell of your body. You have to look deeply to see that she is in fact always with you. Her hand is still in your hand. If your parents have already passed away and you practice looking deeply like this, you can have an even closer relationship with your parents than that of someone whose parents are still alive but who cannot communicate easily with them. You may like to take a moment now to look at your hand. Can you see your mother’s hand in your hand? Or your father’s? Look deeply into your hand. With this insight, and with all the love and care of your parents, bring your hand up to your forehead and feel the hand of your mother or father touching your forehead. Allow yourself to be cared for by your parents in you. They are always with you”
― The Art Of Living
― The Art Of Living
“In my experience, this is the hardest lesson of them all. After a certain age, we are all walking around this world in bodies made of secrets and shame and sorrow and old, unhealed injuries. Our hearts grow sore and misshapen around all this pain - yet somehow, still, we carry on.”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
“Death is essential to making life possible. Death is transformation. Death is continuation. When we die, something else is born, even if it takes time to reveal itself or for us to be able to recognize it.”
― The Art of Living: A Guide to Mindfulness, Personal Growth, and Peace with Transformative Meditations for Understanding Life's Deepest Questions and Experiencing Happiness and Freedom
― The Art of Living: A Guide to Mindfulness, Personal Growth, and Peace with Transformative Meditations for Understanding Life's Deepest Questions and Experiencing Happiness and Freedom
“You must learn in life to take things more lightly, my dear. The world is always changing. Learn how to allow for it.”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
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