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"I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want."
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"Most people do not understand the process of achieving and fulfilling a dream."

"I pray for sufficient wisdom to understand that wisdom apart from God is the stuff of opinion tainted by the rot of bias. And if I am somehow apt to confuse such rubbish with wisdom, I will think myself wise but find myself living in a landfill."

"The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues."

"People who don't know how to use their minds can't really know how to use their hearts either."

"Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society."

"The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature."

"If you are unable to reach a person you must know that this happens not because that the roads are closed but because you don't know the true paths to reach that person!"

"You may not appreciate the value of a key until you encounter the door it locks or unlocks."

"When you understand, you cannot help but love. You cannot get angry."

"To have seen something means it has come into one's understanding. To have known something means it has come into one's knowledge. There is a vast difference between 'seeing' and 'knowing'."
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"If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale."

"She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once believed him to be."

"I wish I had the talent to paint the way I feel about you, for my words always feel inadequate. I imagine using red for your passion and pale blue for your kindness; forest green to reflect the depth of your empathy and bright yellow for your unflagging optimism. And still I wonder: can even an artist's palette capture the full range of what you mean to me?"

"And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just let me be. I don't know how you knew, but you did, and you made it easier for me."

"My daddy saidthat the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, the feeling just never goes away."

"Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can."

"This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go.I love you, T."

"...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment."

"Distance can ruin even the best of intentions.But I suppose it depends on how you look at it.Distance just adds a richness you would not otherwise get.People come. People go. They will drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book.When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their stories and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones. Not the ones from the past."
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