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“Sometimes you have to let your life get messy. That's how you get to the good parts”
― The Girl from the Sea
― The Girl from the Sea
“Time doesn't heal. It’s what you do with the time. Healing is possible when we choose to take responsibility, when we choose to take risks, and finally, when we choose to release the wound, to let go of the past or the grief.”
― The Choice: Embrace the Possible
― The Choice: Embrace the Possible
“To forgive is to grieve—for what happened, for what didn’t happen—and to give up the need for a different past.”
― The Choice
― The Choice
“When a couple tells me they never fight, I say, “Then you don’t have intimacy, either.” Conflict is human. When we avoid conflict, we’re actually moving closer to tyranny than to peace.”
― The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life
― The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life
“It’s the first time I see that we have a choice: to pay attention to what we’ve lost or to pay attention to what we still have.”
― The Choice
― The Choice
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