Quote: “Life rarely ties things up with a ribbon — but it does a decent job with tangled string.”
— Holly Moses
Holly Moses has a gift for finding charm in imperfection. This quote reminds us that life is seldom neat, tidy, or packaged the way we expect. Instead, it’s often messy, knotted, and improvised — but that doesn’t make it any less valuable.
Her words suggest that beauty isn’t in perfection but in resilience: the way we make do, mend, and even laugh at the untidy threads we’re given. Tangled string might not be as pretty as ribbon, but it still holds things together — and sometimes, that’s all we need.
The Sage himself would surely approve, having relied on knotted string more than once to keep his robe from betraying him at inopportune moments.
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