But though you’d never starve your body to wasting and still expect to go on, you starve your heart, yet act as though you can still draw on it forever without the debt ever coming due. If you fall–when you fall, you’re going to fall like a starving man. Lois McMaster Bujold
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If you don't give your heart as much as it needs, then it will never learn to be as strong as you want it to be. It will just keep getting weaker and weaker and weaker. It's like trying to stop a leaky boat by patching the holes instead of stopping the leak.

Source: Beguilement

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