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“About fireworks?
About love. About how we often mistake love for fireworks - for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still. It's boring, if seen from the perspective of high drama. Love is deep and calm - and constant. I imagine you do give Kathy love - in the true sense of the word. Whether or not she is capable of giving it back to you is another question.”
― The Silent Patient
About love. About how we often mistake love for fireworks - for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still. It's boring, if seen from the perspective of high drama. Love is deep and calm - and constant. I imagine you do give Kathy love - in the true sense of the word. Whether or not she is capable of giving it back to you is another question.”
― The Silent Patient
“Albert Einstein said, “If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
― Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday
― Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday
“You know, one of the hardest things to admit is that we weren’t loved when we needed it most. It’s a terrible feeling, the pain of not being loved.”
― The Silent Patient
― The Silent Patient
“Find me someone who has gone to the darkest parts of their own character where they were so close to their own self-destruction and found a way to get up and out of it, and I will bow on my knees to you. … You’re my teacher.”
― Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day
― Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day
“No one is born evil. As Winnicott put it, “A baby cannot hate the mother, without the mother first hating the baby.”
― The Silent Patient
― The Silent Patient
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