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In excellent physical condition for a woman her age, she imagined running strong well into her sixties.

Just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic ... See, they have a beautiful life.

To me, meditation sounds a whole lot like doing nothing. I don't do nothing. I pack every second of every day with something that can get done.

There's no better school than real life.

Concern is a thin hair on the head of pity.

Love is felt beyond words and touch. Love is energy.

He left the room, unable to watch her standing there, naked with her underwear on her head, laughing at her own absurd madness.

I can't stand the thought of looking at you someday, this face I love, and not knowing who you are.

Prioritizing hurt, a reminder that the clock was ticking, that some things would be left undone.

Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big

It's the closest place to nowhere that she can think of. And nowhere is exactly where she wants to be today.

The blazing fire consumed all. No one got out alive. And

The ability to attach guilt firmly by the hand to any positive emotion is a skill cultivated by the Irish,

She felt almost spellbound by him, as if he were a magnet pulling her to him.

She hung up the phone and congratulated herself on still having editorial control over her raw emotions

For a split second every morning, she forgets. And then the black heaviness is there, and she wonders what it is, and then she remembers.

You've had the power all along, girl. Go live your dreams.

Now wasn't the time or place. She'd get into it with him later. If she could remember.

But I am not what I say or what I do or what I remember. I am fundamentally more than that.

You are either Now Here or Nowhere.

Alice: I miss myself.
John: I miss you too, Ali, so much.

Time's a funny thing, bending, warping, stretching, and compressing, all depending on perspective.

I smile, loving him for changing with me, for going where my Neglect has taken us, for getting the new me.

At some point, there would simply be no point.

Pushing aside the overwhelming fears of every horrible thing that will and might be, making room for every magnificent thing that is and might be.

Every breath is a risk. Love is why we breathe

I'd lose what little independence I still have. A new job. Your dad would be working all the time. I'd lose him, too.

Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion.

I don't know how much longer I have to know you.

He said not to worry. But it's there. The worry. I can't help it. It's like telling me not to have brown eyes. I have brown eyes. I'm worried.

I wish I could see you more, too, but I'd never let you stop living your life for me.

Reality depends on perspective, on what is paid attention to.

Also want you to take vitamin E twice a day and vitamin C, baby aspirin, and a statin once a day. You

We have pills for headaches. We have antidepressants for sadness. We had God for believers. We have nothing for autism.

Normal's overrated.

The mother in her believed that the love she had for her daughter was safe from the mayhem of her mind, because it lived in her heart.

Lotus flowers blossom while rooted in mud, a reminder that beauty and grace can rise above something ugly.

The spectrum is long and wide, and we're all on it. Once you believe this, it becomes easy to see how we're all connected.
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Lacking stamina, it became a withering whimsy of a flirtation.

My yesterdays are disappearing, my tomorrows are uncertain, so what do I live for? I live for each day. I live in the moment.

She didn't have time for Alzheimer's today.

Everything she did and love, everything she was, required language.

Take what you've learned and love someone again.
Find someone to love and love without condition.
This is why we're all here.

If her mental prowess became increasingly replaced with mental illness,