Encounter_HUMAN

2021-02-21 18:35:20 In Maris view this difficulty was due not to chaos or disorganization
or anarchy, but to an excess of order. Society had more and more rules,
and laws that contradicted the rules, and new rules that contradicted
the laws. People felt too frightened to take even a step outside the invisible regulations that guided everyone's lives. -Coelho, Paulo. “Veronika Decides to Die.” Open / Comment

2021-02-21 13:18:10 "Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death?
Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering
the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if
they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem." -Coelho, Paulo. “Veronika Decides to Die.” Open / Comment

2021-02-21 10:46:32 Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external
threat can penetrate, build exaggeratedly high defenses against the outside world, against new people, new places, different experiences, and
leave their inner world stripped bare. It is there that bitterness begins its
irrevocable work..-self. Coelho, Paulo. “Veronika Decides to Die.” Open / Comment

2021-02-20 12:11:19 At that moment she hated everything: herself, the world, the chair in front of her, the broken radiator in one of the corridors, people who were perfect, criminals. She was in a mental hospital, and so, she could allow herself to feel things that people usually hide. We are all brought up only to love, to accept, to look for ways around things, to avoid con- flict. Veronika hated everything, but mainly she hated the way she had lived her life, never bothering to discover the hundreds of other Veronikas who lived inside her and who were interesting, crazy, curious, brave, bold.-self. Coelho, Paulo. “Veronika Decides to Die.” Open / Comment

2021-02-20 12:08:33 real love changes and grows with time and discovers new ways of expressing it- self. Coelho, Paulo. “Veronika Decides to Die.” Open / Comment

2021-02-19 16:54:12 “In order to make a relationship last, you really have to flow with a person as they change. Give them space. My friend always told me about his grandfather who was with his wife for 60 years before she passed. His grandfather said that through all that time, his wife changed so much it felt like he had been with 8 different people by the end. But he said the secret to making it last was that through all those changes, he never suffocated his wife with his own idea of who he expected her to be. Rather he loved, fully, every new woman she became.” - rnuneeb Open / Comment

2021-02-18 13:47:36 "Come with every wound and every person you’ve ever loved; every lie you’ve ever told and whatever it is that keeps you up at night. Every mouth you’ve punched in, all the blood you’ve ever tasted. Come with every enemy you’ve ever made and all the family you’ve ever buried and every dirty thing you’ve ever done; every drink that’s burnt your throat and every morning you’ve woken with nothing and no one. Come with all your loss, your regrets, sins, memories, black outs, secrets. I’ve never seen anything more beautiful than you." —warsanshiree Open / Comment

2021-02-18 13:41:15 "First admit that you are unhappy. Then admit why. Then understand you need to let go. Allow yourself a moment. Breathe in the moment deeply. Then the healing will begin."
—nikita gill, How to Start Healing Open / Comment

2021-02-18 09:43:02 Open / Comment

2021-02-16 11:08:00 “My fear of being real, of being seen, paralyzes me into silence. I crave the touch and the connection, but I’m not always brave enough to open my hand and reach out. This is the great challenge: to be seen, accepted, and loved, I must first reveal, offer, and surrender.” —Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith'' Open / Comment