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I just try to live every day with an open heart and an open mind and see what happens.”
you have to protect the small wins when they come.
The key, I’ve found, to moving forward, is asking myself, during these moments: do I want to be right? Or do I want to be happy?
‘Keep going. No feeling is final.’
I don’t like this thing where we have to keep moving on and moving up all the time.”
“You can love someone and still not be compatible,”
you look around at people who are happy in themselves in their lives—they’re just busy living, having a good time.
They can absolutely fuck right off
the importance of living as well and happily as one could.
“Life is going to batter you, honey. She’s a cruel mistress. So you have to find the place in your head where you can get lost in a good way.
sometimes it was necessary to make a mistake to persuade yourself of what was right and important.
Life is long and complicated, Lila, and we all make mistakes. What matters is what we do beyond them.
You can hang on to anger and bitterness your whole life. But all you really do is prolong your own pain.
a sense of wonder, of the impermanence of things and how that, too, can be blissful and heartbreaking at the same time.
