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"If someone hurts you, he is hurting himself. He may not be able to escape that hurt in his lifetime."
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Personal Development

"The truth of life is that almost all that we achieve through pain is the best medicine for us, as most drugs are bitter."
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Personal Development

"I have heard that Paganism is for broken people, but life cracks everyone in some way. We are a religion of healing people."
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Personal Development

"Sorrow is an opportunity to appreciate happiness."
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Personal Development

"We learn from pain that some of the things we thought were castles turn out to be prisons, and we desperately want out, but even though we built them, we can't find the door. Yet maybe if you ask God for help in knowing which direction to face, you'll have a moment of intuition. Maybe you'll see at least one next right step you can take."
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Personal Development

"When we rest, our energy is restored."
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Personal Development

"Your suffering needs to be respected. Don't try to ignore the hurt, because it is real. Just let the hurt soften you instead of hardening you. Let the hurt open you instead of closing you. Let the hurt send you looking for those who will accept you instead of hiding from those who reject you."
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Personal Development

"Focusing your energy on the things you don't like about yourself is self-sabotage and defeating. When you re-direct all that energy into a more positive direction, you will feel the shift instantly to improve your self-esteem and attitude."
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Personal Development

"Five truly effective prescriptions to remedy a bad day. (You can't overdose.)-Pray; discuss your troubles with God.-List your blessings. (The blue sky, soft cookies, warm socks, etc.)-Call your mom.-Visit an animal shelter and hug a lonely cat.-Visit a nursing home and hug a lonely grandparent."
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"It hurt to be wounded. But healing begins with forgiveness."
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"Florentino Ariza, on the other hand, had not stopped thinking ofher for a single moment since Fermina Daza had rejected him out ofhand after a long and troubled love affair fifty-one years, nine months,and four days ago."
Romance

"Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn't die when he should but when he can."
Philosophy

"Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps perpetuate love."
Love

"The Widow Nazaret never missed her occasional appointments with Florentino Ariza, not even during her busiest times, and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved, although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love, but without the problems of love."
Love

"Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out. Aureliano José had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but the bullet that entered his back and shattered his chest had been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards."
Fate

"No one described him better than he did when someone accused him of being rich. "No, not rich, he said. "I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing."
Identity

"Men demand much more than you think," she would tell her enigmatically. "There's a lot of cooking, a lot of sweeping, a lot of suffering over little things beyond what you think."
Society

"There are some corrupt Christians who do their business with female donkeys."
Morality

"It was that wisdom to us when it can no longer do any good."
Wisdom

"That casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that had still not ended half a century later."
Love
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