"The main thing is this—when you get up in the morning you must take your heart in your two hands. You must do this every morning" ~Grace Paley
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"The main thing is this—when you get up in the morning you must take your heart in your two hands. You must do this every morning" ~Grace Paley
I don’t have all the answers, and I get things wrong all the time. But I no longer fight against my nature. My life is filled with love, with deeply loving people, because I care too much. How could I resent that? My capacity to attach to others also my capacity to attach to the world.
— Ava
Aloneness, Belonging, and the Paradox of Vulnerability, in Love and Creative Work – The Marginalian
Maria Popovathemarginalian.orgTWENTY WAYS TO MATTER
Excavate the truth beneath the truth beneath the truth —
the deeper you go, the simpler it gets:
the longing, love, insecurity, rage, loss —
all of it part of the same fabric,
all just a story
emerging from the quantum foam.
Move through the world
knowing that everyone around you
is doing the best they can,
that humanity is capable
of