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humansofnewyork:

"What was the happiest moment of your life?" "
Probably when I saw my husband for the first time.” 
“Did you know he was going to be your husband?” 
“I did.” 
“How’s that?” 
“Oh, I don’t know. He was just so exciting.” 
“What’s the…

humansofnewyork:

"What was the happiest moment of your life?" "
Probably when I saw my husband for the first time.”
“Did you know he was going to be your husband?”
“I did.”
“How’s that?”
“Oh, I don’t know. He was just so exciting.”
“What’s the most exciting thing he ever did?”
“Oh, I don’t know. One day when we were working in the garden, he got down on one knee and proposed to me. At that point, we’d already been married for 35 years.”

Jane Dorn

literaryjukebox:

Anxiety is a desire for what one dreads, a sympathetic antipathy. Anxiety is an alien power which lays hold of the individual, and yet one cannot tear oneself away, nor has a will to do so; for one fears, but what one fears one desires.

Søren Kierkegaard in The Concept of Anxiety

Song: “It’s Only Fear” by Alexi Murdoch

Amazon :: Back to Brain Pickings

Jane Dorn
When I was young, there were very few elders willing to talk about their darkness; most of them pretended that success was all they had ever known … I thought I had developed a unique and terminal case of failure. I did not realize I had merely embarked on a journey toward joining the human race.
— Parker Palmer (via marmeladedpaintings)
Jane Dorn