“When faced with the absence of the most important people in our lives, our brains respond by trying to solve a problem… This is where the pain of grief comes from: there is a problem that cannot be solved.”
- Natasha Smith
“Right now, you are becoming your future.”
John Mark Comer
“I think we all have so much longing in us to live. We have an image of what our life wants to look like, feel like, tastes, sense. And I think it’s so hard to have the courage to follow those longings, to own those longings, to want what we want. Because then what if we don’t fucking get it? And then the heartbreak comes. And the deepest longings are the ones that we are really afraid to mention, the ones that really could cost us.”
Andrew Garfield
“we don’t get to be in charge of what we lose, how we lose it, and when.”
Andrew Garfield
“I think that is the killer, that impulse that is not mine, that is inherited, that is conditioned from our culture, to not feel to calcify the heart, to not reveal the heart, to not trust another person with our hearts is what gets us into trouble.”
Andrew Garfield
“But the sadness is longing. It’s true longing and there’s no shame in it.”
Andrew Garfield
“You are already philosophical, you only need to have been born. You are already artful, you already put things together creatively to produce new things. You are both of these things, even if you have never made a profession of either of them. Even if you didn’t already realise you are.”
- Esther Lightcap Meek
“I could almost speak, the love I almost felt.”
Christian Wiman
“Tragedy doesn’t ruin anybody, hopelessness does.”
John Onwuchekwa
“Not for keeps, to be sure, but as least for the time being, the world has given them back again, and whatever the world chooses to do later on, it can never so much as lay a hand on the having-beenness of this time.”
Frederick Buechner
“Meaningful connections provide emotional support and help us internalize an identity that we are loved and lovable.
It is one thing to know in your head that God loves you; it is another to experience that love in your heart and live it out in your life. True human connection allows that to happen.”
Pamela King
“Suffering is not just about the presence of pain. It’s about the absence of connection.”
- Curt Thompson
“A perfectionist has usually equated their performance at X, Y or Z with their value as a person. Their fear of not being good enough drives them to accept nothing less than pristine levels of achievement and presentation, even if it means neglecting their relationships or well-being.”
David Zahl : Low Anthropology
The unlikely key to a Gracious view of others (and Yourself)
Truly, it is a thin line that separates our longing for beauty and goodness, from our exploitation of them.
Curt Thompson : The Soul of Desire
We long to be seen, heard and felt by one whom we sense desires to see us, hear us and feel what we feel.
Curt Thompson : The Soul of Desire
“The brain can do a lot of hard things for a long time, as long as it doesn’t have to do it by itself.”
Curt Thompson