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“You are more afraid of love than any person I've ever met. It's why you keep testing people pushing them away. Open your eyes.”
― Kristen Hannah

“And then like Pandora, opening the great big box of the world and not being afraid, not even caring whether what’s inside is good or bad. Because it’s both. Everything is always both. But you have to open it to find that out.”
― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts

“I want to live my life so my aura, when it leaves, is very bright.”
― Oprah Winfrey, What I Know for Sure

“Now may deep sleep put us at rest in Thee after the long day, and may morning find us more serene, more thankful, a little stronger, and eager for the unfolding of radiant life. Help us to be ready to see Thy beauty in common things and to find our anchorage in eternal love and truth and forgiveness and hope.”
― Carl Heath Kopf, Personal Crisis

“We still believe in forgiveness with God, although forgiveness which comes on the death bed is not likely to be as deserved as forgiveness which is asked for when we have enough life left to prove our sincerity.”
― Carl Heath Kopf, Personal Crisis

“You are my choice, and with you I shall explore the heights and depths of love, the laughter and tears of days and nights and years. No other shall ever take your place, because I will it to be so, and I intend to keep it so.”
― Carl Heath Kopf

“Some of us walk alone, now that the beloved has gone before. And yet we are not alone. For a presence remains and a memory sweetens with age and the heart is still warm with a glow never seen on land or sea, the light of a oneness that cannot be broken, even by death. Hear our prayer, O God, for all those who love each other in these perilous times, and grant that their love shall not be shattered by the sound of fury. The darker the night, let its light be brighter.”
― Carl Heath Kopf, Personal Crisis

“Anyway, knowledge isn't wisdom, and we aren't here just to stuff ourselves with facts and figures. We are given this life so we might earn the next; the gift is a chance to grow in spirit, and knowledge is one of the many nutrients that facilitate our growth.”
― Dean Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven

“The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.”
― Carl Heath Kopf, Personal Crisis

“Our mistakes don't have to be failures.”
― Nora Price, Zoe Letting Go

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.”
― M.L Stedman

“Good things happen slowly and bad things happen fast. Those were comforting words, and they comfort me today.”
― Abigail Thomas, A Three Dog Life

“You're as cold as ice, Dotty. You'll end up alone if you can't thaw.”
― Kristen Hannah

“I will find strength in what remains.”
― Kristen Hannah

“Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Hate ricochets, but kindness does too.”
― Robin Roe, A List of Cages

“The secret is that the flyer does nothing and the catcher does everything. When I fly to Joe (my catcher), I have simply to stretch out my arms and hands and wait for him to catch me and pull me safely over the apron...
The worst thing the flyer can do is try to catch the catcher. I am not supposed to catch Joe. It's Joe's task to catch me. If I grabbed Joe's wrists, I might break them, or he might break mine, and that would be the end for both of us. A flyer must fly, and a catcher must catch, and the flyer must trust, with outstretched arms, that his catcher will be there for him.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“We're all moons. Sometimes our dark sides overshadow our light.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Walk: The Walk / Miles to Go / Road to Grace / Step of Faith / Walking on Water