I never confused what I had with what I was.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERFeeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?
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I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.
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I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
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Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
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