#closure

If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain gained meaning was through its communication to others. ↗

— Diane Wood Middlebrook

#helping-others #mental-illness #relating #self-disclosure #suffering

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others. ↗

— Jane Austen

#intimacy #marianne-dashwood #openness #opportunity #self-disclosure

I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure. ↗

— Larry David

#closure #die #heart #i #interested

Right now we have a closure rate between discovery and exploitation of four to six months. We need to be more in the realm of seven to 10 days. That is an enormous challenge. ↗

— John W. Thompson

#challenge #closure #days #discovery #enormous

I've seen the video played over and over, and it replays in my head constantly. To be able to walk in his exact footsteps is an extremely huge honor, and I did this for him as much as I did it for my family to get some closure too. ↗

— Nik Wallenda

#closure #constantly #did #exact #extremely

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#another #any #disclosure #display #error

No, I was pleased that it is possible for somebody who makes full disclosure as I've done, not only of the contributors, but also how the money is spent. ↗

— Bill Scott

#contributors #disclosure #done #full #how

Forgiveness wasn’t ever easy, but a feat much more manageable when you weren’t the subject of its grace. Maybe I’d always be a broken recipient of grace. And in that musing, I found rest. ↗

— Rachael Wade

#closure #forgiveness #grace #peace #forgiveness

We’re meant to protect each other, but not from everything. Not from the truth. That’s what it means to love someone but let them be themselves. -Jace Wayland ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#full-disclosure #honesty #jace-wayland #love

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#always #art #beautiful #disclosure #itself