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"When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you."
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"A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal."

"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."

"[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."

"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."

"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."

"We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones."

"Maybe if we love ourselves healthy we will all heal?"
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"The question isn't who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of?"

"Words don't have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess."

"If you have never met a woman that would never give up, then you have never met a woman that has seen miracles."

"Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can heal ourself and others."

"The goal of a life purpose is not what you will create, but what it will make you into for creating it."

"You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don't also make it a need."

"It is not lies or a lack of loyalty that ends a relationship. It is the agonizing truth that one person feels in their heart on a daily basis. It is realizing that you are coping and not living. It is the false belief that there is a verse, quote, phrase or talk that will magically make you feel content, complete or not care. However, it doesn't last longer than a few days, before your mind and heart goes back to what it wants. It is the moment you realize that you left without ever leaving. It is the moment you realize that fear, shame or guilt is the only thing standing in the way of the life God meant for you to live."

"If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest."
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