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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

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
Scenery without solace is meaningless.
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Meaning Scenery Solace Solitude View
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
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
Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.
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Corner Heaven Nature World
Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.
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Escape Home Rare Silence
It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.
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Perfection Time
Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.
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Knowledge Known Understand
You can’t get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn’t help you.
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Help Past Stuck Yourself
The pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.
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Gratitude Pain Praise Suffering
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.
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Formula Life Need Party Relationship Room
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
The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.
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Angry Defense Lying Yourself
We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.
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Deep Forget Gratitude Loss Present
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
Love wins, love always wins.
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Love One Liner Win
We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.
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Choice Heaven One Liner Stop
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
There is no such thing as ‘too late’ in life.
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Inspirational Late Life Motivational One Liner
You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.
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Age Beautiful Competition Goodness Issues True Yourself
Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.
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Act Believe Faith Yourself
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
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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Community Heart Human Peace Relationship Share Yourself
Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.
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Death Deep Life Love Relationship Time
Heaven is always and forever around us and no soul remembered is ever really gone.
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Forever Heaven Remember Soul Spiritual
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
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

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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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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