#burdens

It is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things ... I would have to make a list, a very, very long list and make sure I hated the people on it the right amount ... No ... we always have a choice. All of us." (p. 323) ↗

— M.L. Stedman

#choices #forgiveness #happiness #hate #forgiveness

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#empowerment #flying #freedom #unburdening #weight

You think when someone you love passes away, everything becomes clearer, that your priorities and perspectives align in a way they’ve never aligned before because of the sobriety of it all. But it doesn’t. Those revelations just become skewed and distorted until you’re forced to rewrite them entirely. You can’t walk straight on a new path when you have too much luggage on your back. You just keep swerving, trying to find a way to accommodate the weight, but it’s all dead and you know it’s going to take you down. The only answer is to reroute. -Emma ↗

— Rachael Wade

#grief #letting-go #love

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#carry #everybody #grief #their #them

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#burdens #hard #hard work #ideas #same