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This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It’s knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

Mitch Albom

You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.
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Age Beautiful Competition Goodness Issues True Yourself
Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.
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Escape Home Rare Silence
The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.
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Angry Defense Lying Yourself
There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.
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Formula Life Need Party Relationship Room
Sharing tales of those we’ve lost is how we keep from really losing them.
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Lost Share Story Tale
You can’t get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn’t help you.
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Help Past Stuck Yourself
Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.
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Haunt Hide Silence
Because one thing God gave us- and I’m afraid it’s at times a little too much- is freewill. Freedom to choose. I believe he gave us everything needed to build a beautiful world, if we choose wisely.
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Afraid Beautiful Choice Freedom God Time Wisdom World
There’s a story behind everything but behind all your stories is always your mother’s story because hers is where yours begins.
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Beginning Connection Deep Mom Myself Story Yourself
Love wins, love always wins.
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Love One Liner Win
She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn’t considered the misery she might inflict.
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Consumption Deep Escape Herself Misery Project
It’s such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
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Deep Shame Thinking Wasted Time
This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It’s knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.
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Fame Family Love Money Yourself
All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.
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Beyond Childhood Children Damage Help Parents Repair
The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby’s birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway – most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of a ringing.
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Bad Carry Couple Engagement Goodness Human Journey Life Sound Tragedy
Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don’t assume that it’s too late to get involved.
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Acceptance Assumption Learning Past Yourself

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It’s knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

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This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It’s knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

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