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Don’t cling to things because everything is impermanent.

Mitch Albom

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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Angry Harm Hate Hurt Ourselves Poison Thinking
There’s a story behind everything but behind all your stories is always your mother’s story because hers is where yours begins.
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Beginning Connection Deep Mom Myself Story Yourself
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
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
When you’re rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.
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Love People Worst Yourself
You know what really offers you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.
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Offering Satisfaction Yourself
The words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.
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Oneself People Story Talk Word World
You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.
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Heart Need People Yourself
She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn’t considered the misery she might inflict.
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Consumption Deep Escape Herself Misery Project
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
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
One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
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Change Inspirational Love Relationship 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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Formula Life Need Party Relationship Room
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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Change Future Past Person Reach Transformation Yourself
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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