"I had spent so much of life being afraid or living the memory of being afraid."

Growth, Fear, Memory, Life, Healing

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"I had spent so much of life being afraid or living the memory of being afraid."

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"Growth occurs when we discover how to remain authentically ourselves in the presence of potentially threatening things. Maturity is the possession of coping skills: we can take in our stride things that previously would have knocked us off course. We are less fragile, less easily shocked and hence more capable of engaging with situations as they really are."

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"No man can be skillful without first investing his time into relentless rehearsals."

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"Find answers in your weakness and surprise in your strength and always remember the golden rule every failure has HOPES."

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"In order to make our gifts perfect, you need to work on yourself but it hurts."

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"Vision is a strong tool for increase."

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"Rain touching our hand becomes a little bit salty! Man touching wisdom becomes a little bit wiser! More touches take more from the touched!"

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"When the grass is greener at other people's feet, it is not because the grass chose to take up that complexion. But it is because, they have deliberately irrigated it on regular accounts."

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"He spiked the dirt, twisted out the deformed rose, tossed it aside. His palms sweated.'Sorry,' Persephone suggested.'Pardon?'She murmured, 'You should say sorry when you kill something.'It took him a moment to realize she meant the rose. 'It was dying anyway.''Dying and dead are different words.'Shamed, Adam muttered an apology...."

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"They didn't need the words, if they were willing to be silent long enough to learn to speak without them."

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"I am so, so alive."

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