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Tom Booker

Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater.

— The Horse Whisperer · 1998

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What it means

Our interpretation.

What looks like giving up may actually be honesty of the heart: seeing life as it is, accepting it and staying true to it. That can hurt, but the speaker says the pain of living against your own truth is far worse.

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