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But, just remember, love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don't panic now.

James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

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“If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—warm things, kind things, sweet things.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

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Grandmas were so right about puzzles and knitting and crocheting and solitaire and reading slow and slippers and baking and watching deer in the backyard send post

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“Despite how open, peaceful, and loving you attempt to be, people can only meet you as deeply as they’ve met themselves.”

— Matt Kahn

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“Stay longer in me, take roots.”

— Vera Pavlova (Russian, born 1963), from “If There Is Something To Desire”  “ Побудь подольше во мне, пусти корни. “

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When we avoid difficult conversations, we trade short term discomfort for long term dysfunction.

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