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

Mitch Albom

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’t get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn’t help you.
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Help Past Stuck Yourself
The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
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Death Learning Live Truth Yourself
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
Holding on to things only breaks your heart.
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Break Heart Hold On Yourself
She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn’t considered the misery she might inflict.
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Consumption Deep Escape Herself Misery Project
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
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
Once heaven is done with grandma, we’d like her back, thanks.
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Family Heaven Return Thankful
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
Scenery without solace is meaningless.
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Meaning Scenery Solace Solitude View
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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Heart Love Time True 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
Love wins, love always wins.
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Love One Liner Win
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
Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.
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Haunt Hide Silence
It’s such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
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Deep Shame Thinking Wasted Time
Remember, the only difference between ‘marital’ and ‘martial’ is where you put the ‘i’.
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Difference Funny Literature Remember Word Yourself
Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.
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End Future Past Perspective
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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Best Bond Herself Love Myself Relationship Worst
Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world.
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Death Emotion Feeling True World
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
It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.
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Perfection Time
The secret to happiness be satisfied and be grateful.
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Gratitude Happiness Satisfaction Secret
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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Game Life Lose Start Yourself
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
Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.
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Corner Heaven Nature World

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

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