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“If you spent more time observing than reacting, you would start to notice how the absence of reaction also means the absence of tension. The absence of reaction is essentially a profound ability to let go.”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future

“Love was not something, I realized, that came to you from outside. I had always thought that love was supposed to come from other people, and somehow, I was failing to catch the crumbs of it, failing to eat them, and I went around belly empty and desperate. I didn’t know that love was supposed to come from within me, and that as long as I loved others, the strength and warmth of that love would fill me, make me strong.”
― Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

“When the honeymoon phase is over, what's left is the continuous choosing of the other person.”
― Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

“It just goes to show you: every baby is born beautiful. It's what we project on them that makes them ugly.”
― Jodi Picoult, Small Great Things