“Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.”
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Walter Dean Myers 8
American writer 1937–2014Related quotes
"Obstacles to Happiness", p. 78
Awareness (1992)
Context: Happiness is our natural state. Happiness is the natural state of little children, to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and contaminated by the stupidity of society and culture. To acquire happiness you don't have to do anything, because happiness cannot be acquired. Does anybody know why? Because we have it already. How can you acquire what you already have? Then why don't you experience it? Because you've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something. Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings. Do you know where these things come from? From having identified with all kinds of labels!
As quoted in Behold the Second Horseman (2005), by Joseph Lumpkin, p. 53.
“How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.”
Source: The Professor Of Desire
Source: My Father's Tears and Other Stories
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), Principles
Two Years Later: Mexico City Return
Queer: A Novel (1985)