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1 " You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose. "
― Melody Beattie , The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Life When It All Seems Too Hard to Take
2 " Like it or not, i was already learning that in the worst and darkest time, I would find specks of light, moments of joy. What I didn't want to learn was the other, harsher lesson - that in life's brightest moments there would also be unbearable pain. p 87 "
3 " I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and terrible or joyous and wonderful. The simple truth was that life was both. p 214 "