Tell Me More: Stories about the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
Kelly Corrigan
Top 10 Best Quotes
“That's how it works: someone important believes in us, loudly and with conviction and against all substantiation, and over time, we begin to believe, too - not in our shot at perfection, mind you, but in the good enough version of us that they have reflected.”
“Learn to say no. And when you do, don’t complain and don’t explain. Every excuse you make is like an invitation to ask you again in a different way.”
“Minds don't rest; they reel and wander and fixate and roll back and reconsider because it's like this, having a mind. Hearts don't idle; they swell and constrict and break and forgive and behold because it's like this, having a heart. Lives don't last; they thrill and confound and circle and overflow and disappear because it's like this, having a life.”
“Accepting things as they are is difficult. A lot of people go to war with reality.”
“Being in our lives *as they are* is probably one of the most common struggles people have.”
“One friend told me her one big takeaway from three years and $11,000 of therapy was Learn to say no. And when you do, don't complain and don't explain. Every excuse you make is like an invitation to ask you again in a different way.”
“Like the padre said, life is a mystery to be lived. Live your mystery.”
“I love you. The first time the words pass between two people: electrifying. Ten thousand times later: cause for marvel. The last time: the dream you revisit over and over and over again.”
“But the truth is that I’m always teetering between a mature acceptance of life’s immutables and a childish railing against the very same.”
“I try to be one of the exceptional people who can live with the complexity of things, who are at peace with the unknown and the unknowable, who leave all the cages open. I tell myself: There's so much that you don't know, you can't know, you aren't ever going to know.”
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Book Keywords:
saying-no, acceptance
