You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.
MITCH ALBOMBut 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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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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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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Accept who you are; and revel in it.
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Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.
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Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.
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Holding on to things only breaks your heart.
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Once heaven is done with grandma, we’d like her back, thanks.
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But our eyes are different, what you see ain’t what I see.
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She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.
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But fates are connected in ways we don’t understand.
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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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Life has to end, love doesn’t.
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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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There is no such thing as ‘too late’ in life.
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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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You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
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The pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.
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Love wins, love always wins.
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One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
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People are only mean when they are threatened.
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When you’re rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.
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All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.
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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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The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it’s all an accident.
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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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Don’t cling to things because everything is impermanent.
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