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#1

“Half of me is filled with bursting words and half of me is painfully shy. I crave solitude yet also crave people. I want to pour life and love into everything yet also nurture my self-care and go gently. I want to live within the rush of primal, intuitive decision, yet also wish to sit and contemplate. This is the messiness of life - that we all carry multitudes, so must sit with the shifts. We are complicated creatures, and ultimately, the balance comes from this understanding. Be water. Flowing, flexible and soft. Subtly powerful and open. Wild and serene. Able to accept all changes, yet still led by the pull of steady tides. It is enough.”
― Victoria Erickson

tags: balance, bursting, care, changes, complicated, creatures, flexible, flowing, humans, love, multitudes, open, powerful, pull, serene, shy, silent, solitude, steady, tides, water, waves, wild, words

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#2

“Often times, a person will think they know you by piecing together tiny facts and arranging those pieces into a puzzle that makes sense to them. If we don't know ourselves very well, we'll mistakenly believe them, and drift toward where they tell us to swim, only to drown in our own confusion.
Here's the truth: it's important to take the necessary steps to find out who you are. Because you hold endless depths below the surface of a few facts and pieces and past decisions. You aren't only the ripples others can see. You are made of oceans.”
― Victoria Erickson

tags: humans, oceans

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#3

“Women are powerful, and I see them stifle this every. single. day. Stop looking to be saved and hiding your magic. Stop tossing aside your voice and valid emotions. Stop wasting your time with fake friends and chasing men like they're cures.
Material things, better jobs, and other people- they won't fill your gap. Only you can do that. Life is short. Rise up and step back into your awesome, innate power. You are compassion and creative force and divine life itself. You are a Goddess.”
― Victoria Erickson

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#4

“When connections are real, they simply never die. They can be buried, or ignored or walked away from, but never broken. If you deeply resonated with another person or place, the connection remains despite any distance, time, situation, lack of presence, or circumstance. If you’re doubtful then just try it – go and visit a person or place and see if there’s any sense at all of the space between now and then. If it was truly real, you’ll be instantly swept back into the moment it was before it left – during the same year and place with the same wonder and hope, comfort and heartbeat. Real connections live on forever.”
― Victoria Erickson

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#5

“Like most sensitive souls, you already know you’re sensitive. You soak up others’ moods and desires like a sponge. You absorb sensation the way a paintbrush grasps each colour it touches on a palette.”
― Victoria Erickson

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#6

“They sat far apart
deliberately, to experience, daily,
the sweetness of seeing each other across
great distance.”
― Louise Glück, Poems, 1962-2012

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#7

“We were always going to say goodbye, weren’t we?”
“Yeah. I think so.”
“I loved you though. I loved you so much.”
A pause.
“I know. I know.
“I loved you too.”
― Sue Zhao

tags: goodbyes, love, sadness

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#8

“You don't realize it," came the whisper, "but, one day, this too will be the past and you will come to mourn it."

"You will come to mourn it.”
― Sue Zhao

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#9

“One day I thought to myself: it’s time I did something for me and no one else. And so I left and I never looked back.”
― Sue Zhao

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#10

“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
― haruki murakami

tags: letting-go, life, life-lessons, memories

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#11

“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. ”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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#12

“But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

tags: loneliness

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#13

“She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: Twenty-Four Stories

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#14

“In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: life, life-lessons, point-of-no-return, problems, struggles

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#15

“This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

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#16

“When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

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#17

“Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

tags: animal-rights, vegetarianism

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#18

“I am destroying myself so other people can’t," she said, "and it’s the worst kind of control but it’s the only form I know.”
― Sue Zhao

tags: control, destroy, destruction, excerpt

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#19

“Then he said: don't you know? I am trying to make you great.

And I said: I do not want to be great, I want to be loved.”
― Sue Zhao

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#20

“I was not prepared: sunset, end of summer. Demonstrations
of time as a continuum, as something coming to an end,

not a suspension: the senses wouldn’t protect me.
I caution you as I was never cautioned:

you will never let go, you will never be satiated.
You will be damaged and scarred, you will continue to hunger.

Your body will age, you will continue to need.
You will want the earth, then more of the earth–

Sublime, indifferent, it is present, it will not respond.
It is encompassing, it will not minister.

Meaning, it will feed you, it will ravish you,
it will not keep you alive.”
― Louise Glück, The Seven Ages

tags: nature, poetry

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#21

“At first I saw you everywhere.
Now only in certain things,
at longer intervals.”
― Louise Glück

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#22

“I believe God lets us stumble along, slowly finding our way, and giving us chances to pick each other up.”
― Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

tags: compassion, faith, friendship, god, jesus, journey, life, memoir, relationship, sisterhood, stumble

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#23

“I am still not good enough. I am still not whole enough. I am still not pure enough. I am still weakness and sharp edges and broken, but He is good and pure and whole, all that I strive for but am not.

I wake up every morning and I sit in silence and I choose to believe. I may speak. I may not. I let Him wrap up all my broken in to His grace. He takes me imperfect. This is the great mystery I never knew.”
― Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

tags: brokenness, christianity, faith, forgiveness, god, grace, healing, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, jesus, life-quote, memoir, religion

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#24

“There are lots of real reasons to decide to leave something or someone, but there are lots of other reasons that are less valid and less real and less about a relationship than our own minds: Fear (of screwing up, of being left, of not being good enough), restlessness, resistance to growing up, PMS, not knowing how to live without drama, fearing that you're getting happy, and happiness is boring.

The thing that scared me the most was the knowledge that if I stayed, something was going to change, and that something was probably me. I didn't know what changed me would look like, or if I would like her more or less than I already did. Would I still recognize myself? Would I still be myself?”
― Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

tags: anniversary, change, divorce, happiness, marriage, memoir, personal-growth, relationship

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#25

“It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and beauty with my whole heart. I must let it all in.”
― Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

tags: beauty, bereavement, despair, ecstasy, faith, grace, grieve, joy, love, memoir, pain, personal-growth, whole-hearted

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