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You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

John Green

The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
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Friendship Measure Physical Significance
The town was paper, but the memories were not.
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Memories Paper Town
I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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Except Philosophy Survival
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
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Book Help Understand
The past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.
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Assure Distant Feeling Future Past
Crying is you, plus tears.
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Abundance Cry One Liner Sad Tears
You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.
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Alone Forgiveness Help Love
There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
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Love Matter People World
Maybe there is something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.
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Afraid Hurt Love Matter
When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you’re living a less performed life.
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Acknowledge Authentic Forgiveness Life Performance Person Shame Yourself
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
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Book Reading
It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
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Break Up Broken Heart Heart Privilege
What’s the meaning of life? Other people.
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Life People
It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
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Easy Forget Imagination People World
I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
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Love People Perfection Person Positive Worth
God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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God Karma

You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

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