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“People think that forgiveness is for the person who wronged you, but it's not. Because when we allow things to bottle up inside of us and we don't release it, or forgive the people who may have caused hurt to come in our lives, we just become bitter. And God can't use bitter people.”
― Vanessa Miller, Long Time Coming

“God never fails. Even when it seems as if all is lost, if we put our faith and trust in God, He will work it out in the end.”
― Vanessa Miller, The Politician's Wife

“No matter what trials or tribulations we go through in life, just go on and praise God anyhow.”
― Vanessa Miller, A Forever Kind of Love

“Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
― Paulo Coelho

“When you parent, it’s crucial you realize you aren’t raising a “mini me,” but a spirit throbbing with its own signature. For this reason, it’s important to separate who you are from who each of your children is. Children aren’t ours to possess or own in any way. When we know this in the depths of our soul, we tailor our raising of them to their needs, rather than molding them to fit our needs.”
― Shefali Tsabary, The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Emowering Our Children

“I was twenty-two, the same age she was when she'd been pregnant with me. She was going to leave my life at the same moment that I came into hers, I thought. For some reason that sentence came fully formed into my head just then, temporarily blotting out the Fuck them prayer. I almost howled in agony. I almost choked to death on what I knew before I knew. I was going to live the rest of my life without my mother.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.”
― Anne Lamott, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
― Anne Lamott

“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
― Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings

“Don't try to win over the haters; you're not the jackass whisperer.”
― Scott Stratten, UnMarketing: Stop Marketing. Start Engaging.

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Dear Healer
I do not want to hear "beautiful stories"
about "wonderful" energies.
I want to see the result
Slobodan Boban Manic”
― Slobodan Boban Manic

“When you get into the dark room
You do not open the window and throw out the darkness
You push the button and the light is there
If you feel the darkness in yourself
Do not bother to throw it out
Bring light into yourself and the darkness will disappear
Slobodan Boban Manic”
― Slobodan Boban Manic

“If some people would work on themselves more
than on others
They would make this world much better for life
Slobodan Boban Manic”
― Slobodan Boban Manic