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.
MITCH ALBOMWhen you’re rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.
More Mitch Albom Quotes
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Accept who you are; and revel in it.
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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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All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.
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Sharing tales of those we’ve lost is how we keep from really losing them.
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She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn’t considered the misery she might inflict.
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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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When you’re rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.
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But our eyes are different, what you see ain’t what I see.
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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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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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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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One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
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There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.
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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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You have to start over. That’s what they say. But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really “starting over.” More like “continuing without.
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