There's no beauty without some sadness or damage, or at least the potential of damage. If something's unbreakable, you can't love it because it doesn't need your love. It's the thing that don't last that really move us.

Rory Dunlop
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If we're always safe and happy, we lose the ability to be hurt and broken and we never grow as people. We can't be moved by beauty that doesn't suffer because it can't suffer.

Source: What We Didnt Say

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