They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied your scars and tribulations.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of trust and support in relationships, allowing one to share their burdens with others.
Toni Morrison's quote highlights the profound human connection that can arise when we allow others to help carry our emotional burdens. By entrusting our vulnerabilities to those who care for us, we not only find relief but also foster deeper relationships; in turn, those individuals gain insight into our experiences and struggles, leading to greater understanding and empathy.
In practice
During a counseling session, I shared a quote by Toni Morrison to illustrate the importance of supporting each other.
There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history's rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one -- an activity that occurs most naturally, most often in the reading/writing world we live in. Accessible as it is, this particular kind of peace warrants vigilance.
You looking good." "Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.
What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren't. Somebody tries to say, 'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.' People say that to me. There's no language for it. Sorry doesn't do it. I think you should just hug people and mop their floor or something.
An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.
Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself
One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.
I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each otherβs well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
A man makes you feel important - makes you glad you are a woman.
The ear is the avenue to the heart.
The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is.
Give me the gift of a listening heart.
Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap on through 'opinions' and sometimes though ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through opinions or ridicule
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