Sweetpea Path

That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.

—Deb Caletti, The Fortunes of Indigo Skye

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We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’

—C.S. Lewis

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A path is made by walking on it.

—Zhuangzi

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Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it’s not. It’s all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate.

—Carolyn Crane

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When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.

—― Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers)

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Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks.
The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year.
Take it from me - choke those little bad days.
Choke ‘em down to nothing.

—Tom Waits

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Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing,
and your attitude when you have everything.

—unknown

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Intensity is my natural element, I am sure;
to expect quiet, frivolous talk is against my nature.

—Virginia Woolf … from a diary entry, 21 February ,1919

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It speaks for itself and needs no explanation.
My intentions are not the subject.
The object is the subject.
Not a word out of me is needed.

—Louise Bourgeois

Be melting snow.
Wash yourself of yourself.

—Rumi

What the really great artists do is they’re entirely themselves. They’re entirely themselves, they’ve got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it’s authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.

—David Foster Wallace, from ‘Infinite Jest: Reviews, Articles, and Miscellany’ interview, The Charlie Rose Show, PBS

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We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive

—Thich Nhat Hanh

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In the end, only three things matter:
how much you loved, how gently you lived,
and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

—Buddhist saying…

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