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Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe

A dark, twisted, existential manifesto posing as a book of daily inspiration. Revolutionizing the best-selling genre, this thinking man's parody hijacks the format of daily affirmations but offers a different message: only in parad

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Andrew Boyd (5)Galway Kinnell (1)

“I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.Let our scars fall in love.”

— Andrew Boyd, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Relationship, Scars, Suffering

“We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some compleme…”

— Galway Kinnell, amazon.com

Tagged: Imperfection, Relationship, Flaws, Love

“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away.”

— Andrew Boyd, amazon.com

Tagged: Compassion, Burden, Connection, Hard To Deal With

“Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.”

— Andrew Boyd, amazon.com

Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity

“We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some compleme…”

— Andrew Boyd, amazon.com

Tagged: soulmates, Soul Mates, The One, Finding The One, Love

“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty e…”

— Andrew Boyd, amazon.com

Tagged: Compassion, Love, Empathy, Empath, Pain