But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.
MITCH ALBOMThe 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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The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.
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You know what really offers you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.
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Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world.
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Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.
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What’s wrong with being number 2?
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Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?
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The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it’s all an accident.
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Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.
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Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.
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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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The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
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She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.
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You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.
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I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don’t allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that’s all.
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When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.
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