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“The great question in disappointment is whether we allow it to bring us to ground, to a firmer sense of our self, a surer sense of the world, and what is good and possible for us in that world, or whether we experience it only as a wound that make us retreat from further participation.”
― David Whyte, Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words