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“It’s futile to ask why. Instead ask yourself, ‘What did I learn from this?’” What have I learned from all of it? There is absolutely no way whatsoever to get through this life without scars.”
― Finding Me
― Finding Me
“I now understand that life, and living it, is more about being present. I’m now aware that the not-so-happy memories lie in wait; but the hope and the joy also lie in wait.”
― Finding Me
― Finding Me
“So we are told to love. We are told to listen. We are told to look. But a lot of the time we don’t because we choose damn well not to, and because only a saint could do it all the time, I think. You have to choose who to listen to because if you listen to everybody and you look at everybody—seeing every face the way Rembrandt saw that woman’s face—how could you make it down half a city block? You couldn’t. If you listened to what everybody says to you, how could you survive a day? But we can do more than we do—more than we do, surely we could do that.”
― The Remarkable Ordinary: How to Stop, Look, and Listen to Life
― The Remarkable Ordinary: How to Stop, Look, and Listen to Life
“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of a different past.”
― Finding Me
― Finding Me
“May you live long enough to know why you were born.” —CHEROKEE BIRTH BLESSING”
― Finding Me
― Finding Me
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