My own consistent struggle is to recognize my addictive tendency to validate my worth (dignity) by curating an unrealistic and unattainable projection of who I think I need to be (identity).
“Happiness is a form of insubordination in the face of life, I guess.”
― Faith, Hope and Carnage
― Faith, Hope and Carnage
“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.”
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“It’s challenging to write away from the known and the familiar.”
― Faith, Hope and Carnage
― Faith, Hope and Carnage
“My life is lived with a different intensity, not the burning intensity of youth. It’s something else a kind of spiritual audacity…an audacity in the face of things…a kind of reckless refusal to submit to the condition of the world.”
― Faith, Hope and Carnage
― Faith, Hope and Carnage
“The condition of the soul can be treated independently of the situation one finds oneself in.”
― Faith, Hope and Carnage
― Faith, Hope and Carnage
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