Insightful
by Madeline · updated 8d ago
Insightful
by Madeline · updated 8d ago
“Life is not like formula fiction. The villain has a heart, and the hero has great flaws.”
— Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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We deserve the challenge of becoming all that we can become.
— John O'Donohue
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God, grant me the serenity to
Accept the things I cannot change
Courage to change the things I can
And wisdom to know the difference
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In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go.
-Jack Kornfield
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“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.”
-Charles Bukowski
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Start by starting.
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Simple is hard. It is that simple, and it is that hard.
— Sari Azout
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“I think I have given up on having one character arc or being able to make sense of it all as a unity. I'm trying to get lost in whatever work presents itself on a given day, and if it doesn't add up to anything coherent, that's fine.”
-Sasha Chapin
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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
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