grace

john green once posed this: that maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we are quoting.

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My feelings belong in any narrative about what happened to me. The way I saw things, the way I view things, the way I interpreted things is all valid - that's what happened. And as long as I am committed to telling the truth with kindness, and without any sort of vindictiveness or maliciousness, then I should feel free to tell the truth. And I should feel free to tell people about what happened to me. When you start hiding things about yourself, when you start keeping things about you under wraps—not because they are private or sacred to you, but because you are ashamed—you are essentially creating the environment inside yourself for that shame to grow, for it to spread out into the world, for it to hold you back in ways that you may not realise. And when shame is holding you back, the easiest thing to do is start blaming people around you for why you are being held back. I don't mean people like The Man or the system—but your partner, your kids, your friends. It becomes they're not doing enough, if they were more, if they were better, I would feel better. I don't ever want to do that to anybody that I loved and cared about, and I wanted to stop doing it to myself. The only thing that has ever, ever, ever helped me bring this goal to fruition is telling the truth. and letting people know how I feel, who I am and where I come from.

Ashley C. Ford

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Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.

Emily Dickinson

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I think new writers are too worried that it has all been said before. Sure it has, but not by you.

Asha Dornfest

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Grief is love's souvenir. It's our proof that we once loved. Grief is the receipt we wave in the air that says to the world: Look! Love was once mine. I love well. Here is my proof that I paid the price.

Glennon Doyle, Love Warrior

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I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October.

Virginia Woolf

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There is only one thing that will destroy you. You will and can survive everything except one thing.

Brene Brown

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"You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "Where can I put it down?"

― Anne Carson

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When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain.

Andrea Gibson

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We were created continuously outpouring. Note that I did not say we were created to be continuous outpourers. Nor can I dare imply that we were created to worship. This would suggest that God is an incomplete person whose need for something outside himself (worship) completes his sense of himself. It might not even be safe to say that we were created for worship, because the inference can be drawn that worship is a capacity that can be separated out and eventually relegated to one of several categories of being. I believe it is strategically important, therefore, to say that we were created continuously outpouring - we were created in that condition, at that instant, imago Dei. We did not graduate into being in the image of God; we were, by divine fiat, already in the image of God at the instant the Spirit breathed into our dust. Hence we were created continuously outpouring.

Harold Best, Unceasing Worship (2003).

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I’m person of deep conviction AND deep compassion in a world where compassion is seen as compromise and proof that the conviction was fraudulent

Beth Moore

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My thoughts are the stars I cannot fathom into constellations

Augustus Waters, in The Fault in Our Stars by John Green.

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Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children

Unknown

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The way we interact with music is really disrespectful compared with how we interact with other art forms. The general public doesn't hold music as sacred as they should. When you think of the attention you give to a film or a novel, I think music deserves the same consideration and attention

Moses Sumney

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Time is the process by which treasure becomes trash

John Green

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The trick there is super simple, which is, you meet someone and you don't like them, just don't say anything. Don't tell anyone, don't tell them. Just smile, and then go home and think about it. And then meet them again and start from zero. All I know is that my first impressions of people are just really terrible. So I just throw that out.

Malcolm Gladwell

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it’s been a year and a half since i first watched fleabag but i still think about it like once a day. 

for me, it was the first depiction of grief that felt closest to what i went through. we don’t all have the wandavision luxury of finding a spot to just give up for a bit, even though that urge is in the depths of your soul.

i felt like i just exploded and then had to keep living my life like nothing happened. people even said to me at the time that i was not different. but i knew i had changed on a molecular level. atomic bombs will do u like that.

its an eerie experience to find yourself in exactly the same life as before but suddenly nobody knows how to be around you. the ones that love you the most are even prickly towards you. you stay awake wondering if actually you’re the prickly one, but you’re not really. you’re just someone with a lot of love that doesn’t know where to put it. and so is everyone else around you.

i think when you live that way for a while, you want it to pass. you want someone to tell you the answers so that you can stop thinking of the questions. you want God to be real. you want redemption. you want it so much, you’ll take it from anyone - your priest, your bank manager, a hamster. 

i can’t thank phoebe enough for making me feel seen.

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Anyone without a soul friend is a body without a head.

Celtic saying