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One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don’t know when you’ll see each other again, you can become logjammed with the effort to say and do and settle everything at once.
But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.
By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons.
Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.
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It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.
Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing . . .
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Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.
The day is ending, it’s time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, let go.
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