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 ALBOMIn order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.
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I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle the nights i can’t remember the mornings I slept thru all the time spent running from myself.
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What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next. It is still unwritten.
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No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we’re alone.
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Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.
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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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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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When you come to the end, that’s where God begins.
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You know what really offers you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.
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Don’t let go too soon, but don’t hold on too long.
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We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.
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We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.
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It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.
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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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Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.
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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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The 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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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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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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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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Holding on to things only breaks your heart.
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There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.
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People are only mean when they are threatened.
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It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.
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Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.
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Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world.
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One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
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