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"It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out."
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"A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal."
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"Bitterness and resentment are a bottomless well. They can only be healed by the phenomenon of someone else's sorrow rising to your level of pain... it never happens - save yourself endless hurt."
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Personal Development
"[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period."
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Personal Development
"We cry to release the soul of its pain."
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Personal Development
"Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future."
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"Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aidbeing ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbellyof a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times Istayed in my room for days on end with headphones on, if only so that Iwould not have to listen to my mother cry. There were the weeks that myfather worked round-the-clock shifts, so that he wouldn't have to comehome to a house that felt too big for us."
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Personal Development
"Your greatest healing lies in forgiving all that has wrong and hurt you."
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"We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones."
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"There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do."
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"Maybe if we love ourselves healthy we will all heal?"
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"The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed."
Love
"Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time."
Love
"Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."
Relationship
"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."
Wisdom
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
Wisdom
"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."
Education
"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself."
Friendship
"Achievement brings its own anticlimax."
Success
"Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable."
Attitude
"Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage."
Courage
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