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Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.

Mitch Albom

No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we’re alone.
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Alone Life Thinking Wasted Time Wisdom
The pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.
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Gratitude Pain Praise Suffering
What’s wrong with being number 2?
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Inspirational Number One Liner Wrong
When you’re rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.
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Love People Worst 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
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
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
Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
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Alive Death Lost Love Stay Yourself
There’s a story behind everything but behind all your stories is always your mother’s story because hers is where yours begins.
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Beginning Connection Deep Mom Myself Story 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
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
Once heaven is done with grandma, we’d like her back, thanks.
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Family Heaven Return Thankful
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 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
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
Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don’t assume that it’s too late to get involved.
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Acceptance Assumption Learning Past Yourself

Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.

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