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Grief and pain are like joy and peace; they are not things we should try to snatch from each other. They're sacred.
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I'm not killing myself, I think as I open the door. I'm just not doing what's required to live. There has to be a difference. I
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Life is brutal, but it's also beautiful. Life is Brutiful.
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She is trying to be brave, but no one knows what brave looks like inside this particular moment.
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Our story is the only thing we have that is completely our own. A person who steals it and uses it to entertain is the worst kind of thief. Then
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What if in skipping the pain, I was missing my lessons?
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You are not a mess. You are a feely person in a messy world.
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The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love. Not advice, not questions about our choices, not suggestions for the future, just love.
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You have to be known to be loved, and none of these waving people knows me.
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You have to turn your head to see peripheral miracles.
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That's the thing about parenting: anxious if you do, anxious if you don't.
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Addiction is just a little hiding place where sensitive people can go so we don't have to be touched by love or pain.
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My whole life is an apology, and that hasn't made a damn thing better.
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A heart expands exactly as much as her owner allows.
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If I want to know: Is there anyone on earth who won't betray me? I must answer myself: Yes. Look in the mirror. She won't betray you. So
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Grace makes no disclaimer. It's true for all or none.
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I wonder if the priest knows that while he's up here charging for forgiveness, Mary's back there handing it out for free.
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I must smile as we go down so everyone can drown peacefully.
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They wanted to adore me and I complicated things by inserting myself into their experience of me. I
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We can choose to be perfect and admired or to be real and loved.
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But the paradox of pain is that it is only universal in retrospect. In the present, it is fiercely personal.
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Quit trying to become a better parent and decided to try becoming a better person.
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I have accepted another one of life's dangerous invitations: the invitation to feel. My
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So what is it in a human life that creates bravery, kindness, wisdom, and reilience? What if it's pain? What if it's the struggle?
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Marketers need us to believe that our pain is a mistake that can be solved with their product.
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I don't think kids are any crueler than adults. I just think kids are less adept at disguising their cruelty.
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Forgiveness and grace are like oxygen: we can't offer it to others unless we put our masks on first.
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She pauses and then says: "Maybe, for now, the only right decision is to stop making decisions.
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God approaches us in the disguise of other people.
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I'm not big on advice, mainly because most days I learn what an idiot I was yesterday.
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People who need help sometimes look a lot like people who don't need help.
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Books are how I learned to disappear, to live in a world other than the uncomfortable physical one.
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They look because she's lovely but they stare because she is love.
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Reading is my inhale and writing is my exhale.
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When one is burying a dream, one might as well plant another dream.
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Grieving with another person is one of the holiest places to be.
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I need to sit with the quiet. I know that much.
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I promised myself it would all be okay if I followed three simple rules: Show Up, Be Brave, and Be Kind. No
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Let's begin at the beginning. It's our only choice, it turns out.
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Most of the magic in my life has happened after my heart has been shattered.
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Since brokenness is the way of folks, the only way to live peacefully is to forgive everyone constantly, including yourself.
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Life is hard - not because we're doing it wrong, just because it's hard.
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Thought a lot about how beautiful and powerful courage and faith are when they are found together.
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Each day, we're making sandcastles I know will be washed away. I long for something solid, lasting, strong between us.
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It strikes me that it's always religious people who are most surprised by grace.
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What can I, as a neighbor, do to help level the playing field?
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Learning how to gracefully accept criticism and compliments is hard, but I'm trying.
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I have met my self and I am going to care for her fiercely.
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Don't let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one.
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that we are just scattered pieces of the same puzzle, so when we hurt each other, we hurt ourselves.
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Stop making parenthood harder by pretending it's not hard.
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I'm stuck in anxiety quicksand: The harder I try to climb my way out, the lower I sink.
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Since the day I decided to become sober and a mother, I've been trying to become who I am supposed to be.
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I was what they call a 'highly functional addict.' ... sometimes people who need help look nothing like people who need help.
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When they speak to you from their fearspeak past their fear and directly to their love. Their Love will step forward eventually. — Glennon Doyle Melton
What is to give light must endure burning. - Viktor E. Frankl
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The messiest parts of our lives are also the most beautiful parts of our lives.
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I am confident because I believe that I am a child of God. I am humble because I believe that everyone else is too.
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These things will be hard to do, but you can do hard things.
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What if pain - like love - is just a place brave people visit?
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them to embrace being human instead
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Who else but a sibling travels with you from the start of life's path to the bitter end?
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Happiness is low expectations paired with a short-term memory problem.
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But I drink differently than they do. They drink to take the edge off. I drink to disappear.
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Because love is not something for which to search or wait or hope or dream. Its simply something to do.
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A good day is a good day. A bad day is a good story.
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I think when your heart hurts this much it means you opened it wide once- and that is something to be proud of.
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Don't ask, "What can I do?" She doesn't know. Just do something.
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When you write your truth, it is a love offering to the world because it helps us feel braver and less alone.
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Maybe there is no way for love to fail, because the eventual result of all love is New Life.
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His forgetfulness feels like carelessness, and his carelessness feels like rejection.
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Teamwork. Love takes teamwork, I think.
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No woman on earth doesn't give a fuck - no woman is that cool - she's just hidden her fire. Likely, it's burning her up.
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Whatever is our new spiritual motto and mantra. Whatever is divine.
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I just need to know if you can really know me and still love me,
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We either allow ourselves to feel the burn of our own pain or someone we love gets burned by it.
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We talked about how impossible it is to read minds and hearts and what a relief it is to hear what the person you love needs and learn how to give it.
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crap. I do not know why this is my solution, but when I arrive
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I think that sometimes quitting is exactly the right thing to do. Quitting something that's not working requires self-awareness and courage.
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Having something to say and no one to hear it is so lonely.
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Sister, who needs an umbrella when you are the whole sky?" All
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I'd like to be kind, and at the very least not add to people's pain.
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I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
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sometimes we get confused and believe that our gift must bring us money or success or fame.
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