None of us can choose where we shall love...
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Susan Kay
There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.
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Patrick Rothfuss
It’s not so much the journey that’s important; as is the way that we treat those we encounter and those around us, along the way
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Jeremy Aldana
If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces....
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Frederick Buechner
To perceive is to suffer.
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Aristotle
More Quotes By Leslie Jamison
A cry for attention is positioned as a crime, as if attention were inherently a selfish thing to want. But isn’t wanting attention one of the most fundamental traits of being human–â€â€¹and isn’t granting it one of the most important gifts we can ever give?
Pain without cause is a pain we can't trust. We assume it's been chosen or fabricated.
We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them.
Freedom from one man is just another one.
It was a look that suggested emotions happening just past your line of sight: a grief so deep you'd never be able to see it, a love so fierce it could swallow itself completely.
