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You can’t get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn’t help you.

Mitch Albom

You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.
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Heart Need People Yourself
You know what really offers you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.
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Offering Satisfaction Yourself
The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it’s all an accident.
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Accident Believe Harmony Universe
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
You knew me. You knew that person, but you don’t know the person I’m trying to become… You are not your past!
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Change Future Past Person Reach Transformation Yourself
What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next. It is still unwritten.
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Change Future Inspirational Point Writing Yourself
Don’t cling to things because everything is impermanent.
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Change Deep Hold On Wisdom
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
Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.
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Knowledge Known Understand
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
It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.
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Perfection Time
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
We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.
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Forgiveness Regret Yourself
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
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Community Devotion Meaning Purpose Yourself
Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.
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Confusion Courage Coward Lay
We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.
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Love Material Relationship Universe

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