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Alex’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed

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She understands that attention is the first and final act of love, and that the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.

Alex’s Quotes

“What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s course.”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

tags: adventure, adventuress, bravery, courage, dance, dancing, dreameress, europa, exploration, explore, explorer, female, female-beauty, female-characters, female-empowerment, female-hero, female-liberation, females, feminine, femininity, feminism, freedom, girl, girl-power, girl-quotes, girls, growing, growth, happiness, imagination, imaginative, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspire, life-and-living, life-change, life-philosophy, literary, living-life-to-the-fullest, loving-life, passion, passionate, passionate-life, passionate-living, revitalize, revitalizing, roman-payne, seize-the-day, self-love, self-value, self-worth, strength, the-value-of-life, the-wanderess, wander, wanderer, wanderess, wandering, wanderlust, wayfaring, wild-woman, wildness, woman, woman-empowerment, woman-s-strength, womanhood, women, women-s-inspirational, women-s-liberation, women-s-motivational, women-s-power

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“God is a thing I think I see glimmers all over: an enormous and vague warmth I sometimes catch pulsing around me, giving me shivers and making tears prick my eyes; a mysterious and limitless Thing threaded through all the world and refusing to be reduced to a name or a set of rules and instead winding itself through millions of stories, true and made up, connecting all breathing things.”
― Emily Henry, The Love That Split the World

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“she was completely whole
and yet never fully complete”
― Maquita Donyel Irvin, Stories of a Polished Pistil: Lace and Ruffles

tags: art, artist, be-present, beautiful-mind, beautiful-women, black-women-quotes, black-women-writers, black-writers, bloom, christian-writers, coincidence, complete, faith, faith-in-god, flower, growth-quotes, hope, imperfect, imperfection, jesus, love, love-poems, love-quotes, love-stories, lovely, no-coincidences, perfectly-imperfect, poems, purposeful-living, rare, relationship-quotes, relationships, single, single-woman, stories-of-a-polished-pistil, trust, wanderer, wanderlust, whole, women-writers, writers

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“Wild woman are an unexplainable spark of life. They ooze freedom and seek awareness, they belong to nobody but themselves yet give a piece of who they are to everyone they meet.
If you have met one, hold on to her, she'll allow you into her chaos but she'll also show you her magic.”
― Nikki Rowe

tags: authentic, free-spirit, freedom, growth, gypsy, gypsy-girl, inner-being, master, peace, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, wild, wild-and-free, wild-woman, wild-women, zen

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“She will blaze through you like a gypsy wildfire. Igniting you soul and dancing in its flames. And when she is gone, the smell of her smoke will be the only thing left to soothe you.”
― Nicole Lyons