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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 Albom

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
The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.
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Angry Defense Lying Yourself
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
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
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 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
Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.
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Act Believe Faith 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
When you’re rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.
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Love People Worst Yourself
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
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
Scenery without solace is meaningless.
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Meaning Scenery Solace Solitude View
Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.
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Escape Home Rare Silence
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

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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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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