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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
Once heaven is done with grandma, we’d like her back, thanks.
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Family Heaven Return Thankful
You can’t get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn’t help you.
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Help Past Stuck 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
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
It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.
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Perfection Time
Don’t cling to things because everything is impermanent.
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Change Deep Hold On Wisdom
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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Cry Focus Goodness Morning Myself Tears
Don’t let go too soon, but don’t hold on too long.
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Friendship Hold On Let Go People Relationship Time
Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world.
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Death Emotion Feeling True World
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
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
Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
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Future Worry
People are only mean when they are threatened.
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Feeling People Threat
There is no such thing as ‘too late’ in life.
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Inspirational Late Life Motivational One Liner
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
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
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
The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it’s all an accident.
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Accident Believe Harmony Universe
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 pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.
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Gratitude Pain Praise Suffering
Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.
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Confusion Courage Coward Lay
It’s such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
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Deep Shame Thinking Wasted Time
There are no random acts, We are all connected. You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.
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Act Connection Random Separate Wind Yourself
You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
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Collection Life 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
We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.
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Deep Forget Gratitude Loss Present

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