![[assets/banners/banner-girly-5.png]] > [!quote] 20260519 > We are confronted by the inescapable fact...that there are flaws in every human connection; that our status on this planet is implacably impermanent; and that we are utterly powerless to offer ourselves, or those we love protection—protection from danger and pain, from the inroads of time, from the coming of age, from the coming of death; protection from our necessary losses. These losses are a part of life-universal, unavoidable, inexorable. And these losses are necessary because we grow by losing and leaving and letting go.” --- > Thérèse of Lisieux. _Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux_. Translated by John Clarke, O.C.D. 3rd ed. Washington, DC: ICS Publications, 1997. --- [[20260518|← Previous]] | [[20260525|Next →]]