I am grateful for your strange mind which so uniquely filters existence—at first it was difficult for me to interact with because I felt pressure to match your cool poetic manner, but I’ve subsequently realized that nobody could, so my job is simply to appreciate you, and this has been an upgrade to our dynamic.
I am grateful for your strange mind which so uniquely filters existence—at first it was difficult for me to interact with because I felt pressure to match your cool poetic manner, but I’ve subsequently realized that nobody could, so my job is simply to appreciate you, and this has been an upgrade to our dynamic.
it is perhaps unreasonable to expect a person to be singular in their gifts and graces alone, and not to be equally unlike people in other matters.
Maria Popova • Figuring
Some of us go our whole lives without ever being—or rather, knowing that we are—truly enjoyed by a person. We
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In the end, the boy discovers what we all must eventually, if we are to grow into the full bigness of the heart: that in every relationship of trust and tenderness, each is the guardian of the other’s particularity; that to love someone not for the comfort or compliance they can give you but for exactly who they are, the special and particular pers... See more
Maria Popova • How to Love Yourself and How to Love Another: A Playful and Poignant Vintage Illustrated Fable About Cherishing the Particular
Jordi had been beside herself. She said I sounded completely different, utterly changed. “I do?” “Yes, the quality of your voice, it’s all opened up.” “Open, open, open,” I said, trying to hear the new quality of my voice. “Test, test.” I asked if she judged me and she said, How could I judge you? For what? It’s brave to feel so much. “Brave? Why?”
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The world would crumble completely absent the quiet, unshowy, unselfish, sustained kindness of people like you.