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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.

Mitch Albom

Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.
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Desire Life Ourselves Path Reality
Because one thing God gave us- and I’m afraid it’s at times a little too much- is freewill. Freedom to choose. I believe he gave us everything needed to build a beautiful world, if we choose wisely.
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Afraid Beautiful Choice Freedom God Time Wisdom World
Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world.
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Death Emotion Feeling True World
Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.
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Corner Heaven Nature World
When you’re rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.
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Love People Worst Yourself
Once heaven is done with grandma, we’d like her back, thanks.
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Family Heaven Return Thankful
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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Feeling Need Order Understand Yourself
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
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
But fates are connected in ways we don’t understand.
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Connection Deep Fate Understand Way
The words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.
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Oneself People Story Talk Word World
The secret to happiness be satisfied and be grateful.
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Gratitude Happiness Satisfaction Secret
You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.
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Heart Need People Yourself
Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.
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Haunt Hide Silence
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
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
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
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
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
What’s wrong with being number 2?
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Inspirational Number One Liner Wrong
We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.
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Deep Forget Gratitude Loss Present
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
Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.
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Death Deep Life Love Relationship Time
It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.
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Perfection Time
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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Community Heart Human Peace Relationship Share Yourself
You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.
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Important Life Ordinary True 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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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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