But you cannot change your past, no matter how you craft your future.
“The best definition of happiness is the ability to approach your life as this gorgeous, unfolding work of art that's always changing, and never quite what you expect it to be.”
― Conversations on Love
― Conversations on Love
“It doesn't matter who you meet or when you meet them; there's pain and joy on each side of the ledger. So don't stick rigidly to one story about what your life means, because it's likely to be wrong. In fact, there are many ways of living this life.”
― Conversations on Love
― Conversations on Love
“The best frame of mind to be in for anything you want is an ability to walk away from it, or it not to come right. Otherwise, you put yourself at the mercy of chance and people abusing your desperation. So...the capacity to say 'I could be alone' is strangely one of the most important guarantees of one day being with somebody else in a happy way.”
― Conversations on Love
― Conversations on Love
“Through all of these small moments - the joyful familiar Sunday afternoons and the painful drunken fights - we have a choice. In the joyful ones, will we overlook the beauty, or will we be consciously present? And in the painful ones, will we decide it's easier to shut the conversation down than to dig for the uncomfortable truths? Or will we find a way back to a loving place?”
― Conversations on Love
― Conversations on Love
“The bigger challenge, I think, is how do we carry those losses inside us without letting them distract us too much from our lives...it's worthwhile to realize that we are still ourselves, that there is an essential self that's still there, separate to the future you might have lost.”
― Conversations on Love
― Conversations on Love
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