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" Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It's not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline - and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience. "
Compassion
Life
Love
" I ask only child-free pals for parenting advice because they're the only ones sane and well-rested enough to have any real insight. "
Real
Enough
Advice
" I don't think that I'm broken at all. I no longer think that I'm a mess. I just think I'm a deeply feeling person in a messy world. "
Feeling
Messy
Think
" If no pain, then no love. If no darkness, no light. If no risk, then no reward. It's all or nothing. In this damn world, it's all or nothing. "
Darkness
World
Risk
" If we are going to ask for our daily bread, we've got to take the time to receive it and eat it. God provide, but we've got to slow down long enough to taste and see. "
Time
God
Enough
" I know how I like my house. I like it cute and cozy and a little funky, and I like it to feel lived in and worn, and I like the things inside of it to work. That's all. And for me, it's fine that my house's interior suggests that I might not spend every waking moment thinking about how it looks. "
Know
Cute
Work
" I'm nothing if not a tangled, colorful ball of contradictions. "
Colorful
Tangled
Nothing
" I think of love and marriage in the same way I do plants: We have perennials and annuals. The perennial plant blooms, goes away, and comes back. The annual blooms for just a season, and then winter arrives and takes it out for good. But it's still enriched the soil for the next flower to bloom. In the same way, no love is wasted. "
Good
Marriage
Love Is
" I've never believed in or understood romantic love. Love at first sight was always a complete joke to me. "
Always
Love
Me
" Life is a conversation. Make it a good one. "
Life Is A
Life
Good
" Life is not safe, and so our task is not to promise our kids there will be no turbulence. It's to assure them that when the turbulence comes, we will all hold hands and get through it together. "
Safe
Hands
Life
" Over time, I have come to believe that 'brave' does not mean what we think it does. It does not mean 'being afraid and doing it anyway.' Nope. Brave means listening to the still small voice inside and doing as it says. Regardless of what the rest of the world is saying. "
Think
Listening
Small
" Pain is mandatory for all of us. It's what teaches us. Suffering is what's optional. That's what happens when we try to skip over the pain. "
Happens
Over
Pain
" Sometimes the rewards of risk don't leave us wrecked. Sometimes we find our passion, our purpose, courage, connection, and comfort. Every good thing in our lives is a direct result of risk. "
Good
Purpose
Comfort
" The amazing thing about love and attention and encouragement and grace and success and joy is that these things are infinite. We get a new supply every single morning, and so we can give it away all day. We never, ever have to monitor the supply of others or grab or hoard. "
Grace
Day
Love
" The hardest part of living without social media was remembering that my little life was enough, so I could just stay there and live it without asking for anyone else's permission or validation. I realized that for me, posting is like asking the world, 'Do you 'like' me?' "
Media
World
Live
" The Internet is neither good nor bad. It's neutral - it becomes for each of us exactly what we bring to it. "
Bad
Bring
Good
" We all have this misunderstanding about heartbreak, which is we think we should avoid it. But what I think is that heartache is a clue toward the work we're supposed to be doing in the world. What breaks each person's heart is different - be it racial injustice, war, or animals. And when you figure out what it is that breaks yours, go toward it. "
Think
Animals
World
" We can be shiny and perfect and admired, or we can be real and honest and vulnerable and loved. But we actually do have to choose. "
Choose
Perfect
Loved
" We need to make friends with ourselves. We are stuck with our self all day, so let's be kinder, gentler, more amusing company. Let's take our own hand and say, 'There, there, sister. You're doing a good job. I'm proud of how you're handling all this craziness down here. Don't give up. Carry on, warrior.' "
Sister
Job
Good
" When folks decide they love any institution more than the individual souls inside them, they're missing the mark. "
Inside
More
Love
" When in doubt, I choose love above any particular ideas offered to me about faith. "
Ideas
Love
Choose
" When people express opinions that differ from yours, take it as a chance to grow. Seek to understand over being understood. Be curious, not defensive. The only way to disarm another human being is by listening. "
Listening
Opinions
Way
" You can be shattered, and then you can put yourself back together piece by piece. But what can happen over time is this: You wake up one day and realize that you have put yourself back together completely differently. That you are whole, finally, and strong - but you are now a different shape, a different size. "
Day
Time
Strong
" You do not have to agree with me to love me. "
You
To Love
Me
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