“Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway.
Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious”
Source: The Treasure Map of Boys: Noel, Jackson, Finn, Hutch, Gideon—and me, Ruby Oliver
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This is a variant or paraphrase of The Paradoxical Commandments, by Kent M. Keith, student activist, first composed in 1968 as part of a booklet for student leaders, which had hung on the wall of Mother Teresa's children's home in Calcutta, India, and have sometimes become misattributed to her. The version posted at his site http://www.paradoxicalcommandments.com begins:
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“Sometimes you dont even want to think aout what people are doing with their groceries.”
Source: Someone Like You
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 4
“Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.”
Source: Sharp Objects
“Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.”
Source: Not My Father's Son