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"My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not."
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"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
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"A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators."
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"My mother is my doctorCaring for me when am illI will love her forever tillWe are gone to our creator!"
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"Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock."
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"Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit."
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"If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times!"
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"Children can see the beatitudes in nature."
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"You don't build a family by tearing down another one."
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"It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are."
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"Mom means miracles of a magical life."
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"It's amazing to me the number of people who will volunteer to help at church but won't lift a finger to help at home!"
Ethics

"Learning to live for others isn't something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it."
Empathy

"Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway."
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"Mercy is the stuff you give to people that don't deserve it."
Compassion

"It's amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they're doing. I've learned to take notice of those things and if it's something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life."
Kindness

"Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can't wait for a feeling to motivate you."
Love

"I used to let other people's struggles affect my happiness. If they weren't happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn't happy, I didn't want anyone around me to be happy."
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"Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try."
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"Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage."
Healing

"Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable."
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