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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
“Toni Morrison in The Bluest Eye says that “a person’s love is only as good as the person; a stupid person loves stupidly, a violent man loves violently.”
― 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
“May you live long enough to know why you were born.” —CHEROKEE BIRTH BLESSING”
― Finding Me
― Finding Me
“The faces we lose track of most easily are the faces of the people who are closest to us, the people we love the most whose faces we see so often that we can't really see them anymore.”
― The Remarkable Ordinary: How to Stop, Look, and Listen to Life
― The Remarkable Ordinary: How to Stop, Look, and Listen to Life
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