thinking & feeling my way through life
“You must never feel badly about making mistakes,” explained Reason quietly, “as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”
The Phantom Tollbooth, page 233
I think love is getting frustrated with someone over and over again, but always wanting to return to them. It’s being curious about who they might be today, while still remembering who they were yesterday. It’s resting in the fact that even on the messiest of days, they still want to know you, and you them.
To be loved is to be known
Asking the right question is a form of care and love. It believes there's more to find and calls someone into fuller being.
why some conversations rearrange your brain
Source — this is hwy why I loeve questions
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LinkSometimes loving someone requires being willing to leave them when you know that the other option is stay and (continue to) hurt them
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Like the quote “show me the child at 7 and I’ll show you the adult at 21”
Replace imposter syndrome with pretending to be a con man