Brenda Shaughnessy Quotes
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Strength means...acknowledging each of those feelings, your questions and ideas and faith and terror, and meeting what comes with the full force of your heart.
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What if all possible pain was only the grief of truth?
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Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak.
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I've been melted into something too easy to spill. I make more and more of myself in order to make more and more of the baby. He takes it, this making. And somehow he's made more of me, too.
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Death and life are, for most of us, too complex to comprehend, but Alex Lemon can pretty casually, accurately, and marvelously correlate them to heavy metal and birthday cake.
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How anyone becomes herself/is a mystery.
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I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.
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You are not broken. You break again and again because that's what breaking means. To be whole.
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