Kevin Brooks: "Getting over it doesn’t mean forgetting it, it just means..."

Resilience

Getting over it doesn’t mean forgetting it, it just means reducing the pain to a tolerable level, a level that doesn’t destroy you.

— Kevin Brooks

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Why This Quote Matters

Anyone who has had a real encounter with forgetting will recognize something in this. Recognition is the test of whether a quote is actually true.

Come back to this one in a few months. A good quote changes meaning as you change. This one has that quality.

Whatever brought you here today, you are paying attention. That counts for something.