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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.

Mitch Albom

I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.
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Growth Home Memories Notice Thinking Tree 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
Holding on to things only breaks your heart.
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Break Heart Hold On Yourself
Accept who you are; and revel in it.
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Acceptance Inspirational Self Love Yourself
Sharing tales of those we’ve lost is how we keep from really losing them.
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Lost Share Story Tale
Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.
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Corner Heaven Nature World
But our eyes are different, what you see ain’t what I see.
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Deep Different Eyes Myself Ourselves See Wisdom Yourself
Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
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Oneself Science Story World
Once heaven is done with grandma, we’d like her back, thanks.
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Family Heaven Return Thankful
One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
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Change Inspirational Love Relationship Yourself
Anger is a poison. It eats us inside. We think when we hate someone we hurt them, but hatred is a curved blade, and the harm we do to others we also do to ourselves.
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Angry Harm Hate Hurt Ourselves Poison Thinking
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
You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
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Collection Life Yourself
Don’t cling to things because everything is impermanent.
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Change Deep Hold On Wisdom
The pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.
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Gratitude Pain Praise Suffering
Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.
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Desire Life Ourselves Path Reality
You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.
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Important Life Ordinary True Yourself
You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.
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Heart Need People Yourself
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
All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.
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Beginning End Time Wisdom
Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.
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End Future Past Perspective
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.
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Alone Death Fight Parents Yourself
The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it’s all an accident.
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Accident Believe Harmony Universe
When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.
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Eyes Love Mom Purity World
There are no random acts, We are all connected. You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.
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Act Connection Random Separate Wind Yourself
Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
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Alive Death Lost Love Stay Yourself
Fear is how you lose your life…a little bit at a time…What we give to fear, we take away from…faith.
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Faith Fear Life Lose Time

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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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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