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My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.

Brad Meltzer

There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you’re miserable and working out.
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Character Out Plot Work
I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It’s like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW.
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Biking Moving Something Switch Two Yoga
In this life, y’ever notice that you face the same challenges again and again? We all do. They’re challenges to your soul. We repeat them until we face them and master them. Yes we all have free will, but there’re divine patterns out there, and the battle is to see them.
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Battle Challenges Soul
…as your father, my instinct is to protect you … Other people will want to protect you too. But remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget the prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself.
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Father People Waiting
No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.
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Love Matter Parenting Parents
Sharing education, sharing a book…that’s what changes the world.
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Book Changing World
As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life – no matter how impossible it seems – you need to fight for it.
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Daughter Fighting Impossible Mother
From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.
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Ancient Animal Fighting
Don’t go to eighth grade…don’t talk about something old…don’t bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY.
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Grade Memories Something Today
Greatness isn’t something you should always be chasing. There’s greatness within all of us, and I think that’s what we forget.
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Forget Greatness Thinking
The past may not hurt you, but it won’t challenge you, either.
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Challenges Hurt Past
She wasn’t tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.
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Adoption Father Tracking
Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn’t already written. It’s written every day. Some scars never heal. Then again, some do.
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Alraedy Book Fate Scar Written
Our fathers never leave us. Ever.
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Father Leave Our
I love when I teach my son a good lesson. But I love it even more when he teaches me.
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Lessons My Son
History doesn’t choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?
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Individual Long People

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