Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.
Alain de Botton (via anditslove)
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Love, if this is how you choose to leave me let me let you.
The people who have a strong sense of love and belonging believe they are worthy of love and belonging.
The problem is that you cannot selectively numb emotion. You can’t say ‘Here’s the bad stuff. Here’s vulnerability, here’s grief, here’s shame, here’s fear, here’s disappointment. I don’t want to feel these.’ […] You can’t numb those hard feelings without numbing the other affects, or emotions. When we numb those, we numb joy. We numb gratitude. We numb happiness.
The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.
Give me a job, please.: I went on a date last night and then you texted and asked, again,...
I went on a date last night and then you texted and asked, again, whether I would come there. Start our days with coffee, end with you making dinner. Forever. I feel myself tug towards yes and then I remember why it will always be no with you and I.
There are people in your life who are going to…
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