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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!

Mitch Albom

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
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
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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Day Hands Myself Night Remember Run Sleep Thinking Time
Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
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Future Worry
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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Big Confusion Food Need Yourself
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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Cry Focus Goodness Morning Myself Tears
We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.
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Forgiveness Regret Yourself
The pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.
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Gratitude Pain Praise Suffering
It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.
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Comfortable God Listening Thinking
The secret to happiness be satisfied and be grateful.
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Gratitude Happiness Satisfaction Secret
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
Remember, the only difference between ‘marital’ and ‘martial’ is where you put the ‘i’.
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Difference Funny Literature Remember Word Yourself
In 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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Feeling Need Order Understand Yourself
There are no random acts, We are all connected. You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.
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Act Connection Random Separate Wind Yourself
The most inspirational man I knew only reached his potential by helping a child reach his.
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Children Help Inspirational Man Myself Potential Reach
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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Community Devotion Meaning Purpose Yourself

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