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Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves.’ If you think you’re able to let things go without ever seeing her again, more power to you.
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“What Jewish law wants is an ongoing conversation between man and G-d, and between man and man--but most of all, between man and himself. It's not a command, exactly, but a conversation: an inner song, full of melody and refrain, sometimes heard only by what Rabbi Soloveitchik so movingly called the lonely man of faith”
― The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible
― The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible
“A definition of loneliness surfaced in his mind: when you suddenly understand that the story of your life isn’t what you thought it was.”
― The Weight of Ink
― The Weight of Ink
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Never underestimate the passion of a lonely mind.”
― The Weight of Ink
― The Weight of Ink
“When your heart breaks, you can actually feel it, an agonizing stab of pain in a muscle that you know for a fact is just a glorified pump. Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, the ordered universe changes, the solid ground beneath your feet becomes a slippery rock. The material world that seemed so safe and solid a moment ago becomes a shifting, ghostly place of shadows and mist. Matters that seemed settled and certain a long ago come suddenly unhinged, and you begin to doubt everything you ever knew to be true.”
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