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A great hope gets crushed every time someone reminds us that happiness can be neither assumed nor earned; that we are all prisoners of our own flawed ...more

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As you ripen, you’ll notice that time is the weirdest thing in the world, that these surprises are relentless, and that getting older is not a stroll ...more

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It is not true that "love is not love which alters when it alteration finds." Love alters all the time; it is fluid, in perceptual flux, an evolving b...more

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To look deep into your child's eyes and see in him both yourself and something utterly strange, and then to develop a zealous attachment to every aspe...more

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Those who believe their suffering has been valuable love more readily than those who see no meaning in their pain. Suffering does not necessarily impl...more

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Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw...more

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You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is that it touches cognition. That you are having a ...more

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Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of tha...more

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It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of...more