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Jonathan Patton
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No one gets through unmarked by brooding, grief, confusion, and loss. Even those who had it all as kids sooner or later get the average share of misery, if not sometimes more.
“In the beginning of a relationship, your love may include only you and the other person. But if you practice true love, very soon that love will grow and include all of us. The moment love stops growing, it begins to die. It’s like a tree; if a tree stops growing, it begins to die. We can learn how to feed our love and help it continue to grow.”
― How to Love
― How to Love
“There are consolations that the strongest human love is powerless to give.
(page 330)”
― The Overstory
(page 330)”
― The Overstory
“The moment holds neither disappointment nor delight. Realizing we are no longer in love is not the heartbreaking sensation we imagine when we are in love—because it is no sensation at all. It is a realization made by a bystander.”
― Less Is Lost
― Less Is Lost
“When you can’t be fully here, you go to the places where you did feel alive—even if those places are filled with horror and misery.”
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“God loves creatures who have become unlovely and (one would have thought) unlovable.”
― Knowing God
― Knowing God
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