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.
MITCH ALBOMYou 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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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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Don’t let go too soon, but don’t hold on too long.
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People are only mean when they are threatened.
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Don’t cling to things because everything is impermanent.
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Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world.
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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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One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
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It’s such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
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It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.
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You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.
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But fates are connected in ways we don’t understand.
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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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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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But our eyes are different, what you see ain’t what I see.
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The words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.
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Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.
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You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
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The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.
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When you come to the end, that’s where God begins.
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Sharing tales of those we’ve lost is how we keep from really losing them.
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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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Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.
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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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The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it’s all an accident.
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Scenery without solace is meaningless.
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Life has to end, love doesn’t.
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