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“Feel. Grieve. Let yourself fell the anger at the fact that he was taken from you. Feel the loss of him . Feel the sadness and the missing him. Don't block it out, don't cut so it so stop, don't drink yourself numb. Just sit and let it all rip you apart. And then get up and keep breathing. One breath at a time. One day at a time. Wake up, and be shredded. Cry for a while. Then stop crying and go about your day. You're not okay but you're alive, and you will be okay, someday”
― Falling Into You
― Falling Into You
“expect sadness
like
you expect rain.
both,
cleanse you.”
―
like
you expect rain.
both,
cleanse you.”
―
“in our own ways we all break. it is okay to hold your heart outside of your body for days. months. years. at a time. – heal”
― salt.
― salt.
“There are always moments when one feels empty and estranged.
Such moments are most desirable,
for it means the soul has cast its moorings and is sailing for distant places.
This is detachment --
when the old is over and the new has not yet come.
If you are afraid, the state may be distressing,
but there is really nothing to be afraid of.
Remember the instruction:
Whatever you come across -- go beyond.”
―
―
“if
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water
mixed with
air.”
―
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water
mixed with
air.”
―
Should have read classics
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— last activity Apr 17, 2020 07:38PM
This is a group that is reading some of the classics that maybe we should have read but we got so turned off by "classics" we had to read in high scho ...more
Around the World
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— last activity Jul 15, 2026 12:19AM
Each year we look at our to-be-read shelves and choose which countries of the world we want to travel through. Some of our members map their journeys ...more
Pulitzer Prize Winning Fiction Project
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— last activity Dec 21, 2019 08:06AM
Join me in reading all of the Pulitzer Prize Winning Fiction!
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