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  • #1
    “No one really wants to be idealized - we want to be seen and accepted and forgiven, and to know that we can be ourselves in our less edifying moments.”
    Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

  • #2
    “Maybe, then, this is how you try to bear the burden of the mystery with grace: by finding humility where you once saw self-pity, and opportunity where you once saw absence. By saying, ‘Even if I don’t get what I want, I have a good life,’ then paying closer attention to the small details that make that life beautiful. And by never forgetting that not knowing what will happen next also means that anything could.”
    Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

  • #3
    bell hooks
    “Acceptance of pain is part of the loving practice. It enables us to distinguish constructive suffering from self-indulgent hurt.”
    bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions



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