No Part Of Yourself Is Unworthy.
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No Part Of Yourself Is Unworthy.
- In her novel, The Painted Drum, writer Louise Erdrich discusses taking risks:
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed u... See morefrom 3-2-1: On Mediocrity vs. Genius, Taking Risks, and When to Ignore a Problem | James Clear by James Clear
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“Being able to say ‘this is who I am’ when everything else feels uncertain, flimsy, prone to dissolution, may be the greatest comfort we have. Is anything more seductive, more empowering?/ To be alive is to subject oneself to the reality of being permeable/ so, while I welcome the pleasure of those moments when I feel like myself, I don’t think I w
... See morefrom A Long Talk: conversation between Eloghosa Osunde & Joshua Segun-Lean. by Eloghosa Osunde
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The most terrible and beautiful and interesting things happen in a life. For some of you, those things have already happened. Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.
from Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
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- “You are weak and raw and broken, and that's okay. That's where real life begins. Throw yourself into that rawness., Dive into a bunch of stories about absorbing and leaning into disappointment and loss and melancholy as a way of moving through it.”
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Heather Havrilesky,
How to Be a Person in the World: Ask Polly's Guide Through the Paradoxes of Mo... See morefrom A quote from How to Be a Person in the World
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Love, we recognize that the fear of letting people down keeps us trapped and unable to heal and live a life that is our own.
from The Burnout Antidote by Anne Berube
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Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your
... See morefrom Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar by cheryl strayed
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Aloneness, Belonging, and the Paradox of Vulnerability, in Love and Creative Work
by Maria Popova
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Life is fierce and difficult. There is no life we can live without being subject to grief, loss and heartbreak. Half of every conversation is mediated through disappearance. Thus, there is every reason to want to retreat from life, to carry torches that illuminate only our own view, to make enemies of life and of others, to hate what we cannot unde
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