Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar Quotes

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I have breathed my way through so many people I felt wronged by; through so many situations I couldn't change. Sometimes while doing this I have breathed in acceptance and breathed out love. Sometimes I've breathed in gratitude and out forgiveness. S...

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Go, even though you love him. Go, even though he is kind and faithful and dear to you. Go, even though he's your best friend and you're his. Go, even though you can't imagine your life without him. Go, even though he adores you and your leaving will ...

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

...but thinking about it didn't do a thing. Thinking about it was a long dive into a bucket of shit that didn't have a bottom.

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

I happen to believe that America is dying of loneliness, that we, as a people, have bought into the false dream of convenience, and turned away from a deep engagement with our internal lives—those fountains of inconvenient feeling—and toward the ...

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. Anyone who expects you to has no sense of the arts.

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from...

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. Y...

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English degree and/or creative writing degree you'll say: 'Continue my bookish examination of the contradictions and complexities of human motivation and desire;' or maybe just: 'Carry it with ...

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Be fearless enough to let love transform you.

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

But as you are surely aware, forgiveness doesn't mean you let the forgiven stomp all over you once again. Forgiveness means you've found a way forward that acknowledges harm done and hurt caused without letting either your anger or your pain rule you...

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

What’s important is that you make the leap. Jump high and hard with intention and heart. Pay no mind to the vision that the commission made up. It’s up to you to make your life. Take what you have and stack it up like a tower of teetering blocks....

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

My mother's last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love.

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

The place of true healing is a fierce place. It's a giant place. it's a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light.

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

This is how you get unstuck. You reach.

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar