Anatole France was a poet, journalist, and novelist. He once won the Nobel Prize for Literature. . . and get ready for this. . . he was French. Original last name, huh? Ha! This man has some amazing quotes from his various publications. Thank you, Wikipedia and the Google for teaching me that!
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another."
This quote's pure, simple beauty truly brings me to tears. Maybe that's because of some of the changes in my life lately, maybe it's still simply effects of my breakup, or maybe it's the honesty in the statement itself. That quote is art to me. THAT is why I love quotes.
Moving forward is so hard. Whether it's switching careers, ending a relationship, moving, graduating, getting married, having a kid, whatever. . . ALL of those things have hope in them. But they also all have loss. Because those epic events signify the end of something that probably wasn't just a fleeting moment. It's a celebration and a mourning both at once.
I mourn the celebration. I celebrate the loss.
I'm confused even as I write that! And yet I know it's the simple truth.
