Tiny Beautiful Things

psychologically ready to give and receive love, your best course is to do what everyone who is looking for love does: put your best self out there with as much transparency and sincerity and humor as possible.

The whole deal about loving truly and for real and with all you’ve got has everything to do with letting those we love see what made us.

believe once you allow yourself to be psy

Sometimes while doing this I have breathed in acceptance and breathed out love. Sometimes I’ve breathed in gratitude and out forgiveness.

Accept that this experience

We act as if we don’t know that awful things happen to all sorts of people every second of every day and the only thing that’s changed about the world or the existence or nonexistence of God or the color of the sky is that the awful thing is happening to us.

taught you something you didn’t want to know.

In this sense, she offers what we wish every mother would:

enough compassion to make us feel safe within our broken need, and enough wisdom to hold on to hope.

afraid of saying it out loud, as my experience shows that word “love” comes loaded with promises and commitments that are highly fragile and easily broken