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“No, no, no,” she would say to me. “Stop with that kind of talk. You’re at the beginning. You’re creating your reality, and the words you tell yourself, the story you believe about yourself, is the way things are going to turn out for you. You have to fill your heart with love for yourself, Phronsie. That is the first and most important thing you have to do. Everything you want will follow from that.”
grief is something you can get used to. You shrink it down, put it in your pocket, like a phone number scrawled on a piece of paper, and maybe after a while,
you just leave it in your drawer and don’t carry it with you at all.
Life is what you make it. See yourself as a victim, and that’s how it will always be.”
It takes character to live with the imperfect facts of your life and to change the things you can change, and to be willing to live with the things you can’t do anything about. I’ve
“Just take your place in the world with as much grace and gratitude as you can muster and try to see the best in us.”
when you’re drawn to someone, they also feel the same way about you because it’s the spark in you talking to the spark in them.
