![]() ![]() Now focus your mind on the life you intend to have. Like kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken ceramics with gold. Set down your grief for the life you intended to have but won’t the grief will be there when you’re ready to come back to it. In this deeply moving book of quotes and essays, Maggie writes about new beginnings as opportunities for transformation. Trust that the present moment-however difficult, however different from what you’d imagined-has something to teach you. It's beautiful and provides a lot of self-advice that I want to remember and hold close as I struggle with so many things in life myself.įocus on who you are and what you’ve built, not who you’d planned on being and what you’d expected to have. Here she collects those quotes along with essays about how she moved forward into the light after a dark time. Theyre here half the week and I cannot crumble because Ive got them and. I have joint custody, so theyre not here every day. Every post ended with her advice to herself (and all of us) to "Keep moving." One of the things thats kept me moving is having my kids here. ![]() Smith started by writing a brief, hopeful note of encouragement to herself daily and posting it on social media. Somehow, she took the crushing, world-altering blow of a wrenching divorce and transformed it into hope for herself and others, not to mention writing a bestseller in the process. I think I learned a little from each of them, but I never worked the inspiring magic trick poet Maggie Smith did with Keep Moving. I've had breakups that brought me to my knees, endings that left me destroyed, crying, hopeless. ![]()
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