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.
MITCH ALBOMIt’s such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
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Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.
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Anger is a poison. It eats us inside. We think when we hate someone we hurt them, but hatred is a curved blade, and the harm we do to others we also do to ourselves.
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All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.
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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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Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.
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Life has to end, love doesn’t.
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The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
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Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
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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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Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world.
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The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.
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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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Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.
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The most inspirational man I knew only reached his potential by helping a child reach his.
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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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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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No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we’re alone.
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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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She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn’t considered the misery she might inflict.
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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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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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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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We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.
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It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.
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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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People are only mean when they are threatened.
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