"Honesty. Sobriety. My virginity. No way to regain the first two, I almost gave away the last."

Regret, Honesty, Integrity, Loss

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"Honesty. Sobriety. My virginity. No way to regain the first two, I almost gave away the last."

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"Do you have regrets that we were so overwhelmed? Do you ever wish to live those hours over again and differently, with more confidence."

Anais Nin, American Author

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"Wasting and losing time is equivalent to wasting and losing your life."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Sudden acquaintance brings repentance."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"Why compare yourself to others? You never know what people have endured to get where they are."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"What matter most is not the sin. The moment of repentance: go and sin no more."

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"But it seems she'd wanted children after all, because when she was told she'd been accidentally sterilized she could feel all the light leaking out of her."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"I wasn't able to be that person for you, and I did a terrible thing. I feel awful about it. But there was something wrong between us from the start, as if we'd done the buttons up wrong."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Refusal to accept the truth is denial of divine self."

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"The living dead do things without putting life into it."

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"The future is just wasted on some people."

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"Anger is easier than forgiveness."

Forgiveness

"Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end."

Presence

"Hurt. Enough to want to make someone else hurt too."

Revenge

"We used to do coke, till "Just Say No" put the stuff out of reach. Now it's crank. Meth. The monster. It's a bitch on the body, but damn do you fly."

Addiction

"Empty is the perfect state of being. Nothing inside to anchor you. Nothing inside to chain you down, keep you from living your dreams. Empty, almost weightless, you are an eyelash afloat on a blink of breeze. You can rise about tension and worry, loosed from the grip of gravity. Adrift in thermal lift, you ride the wing of freedom and soar. Empty, you are Eve in Eden. Empty, you are what you were meant to be."

Emptiness

"DisappointmentCan do a couple things.It can drop you into a giantsucking sinkhole ofdepression,a place you have to fightto climb out of. Or itcan trigger an epicmaniato overcome the oddsand transform failureinto success. Say youswingas high as the chains willtake you because you seekthe thrill of flight, and on theup-kick, you lose your seat.Injury is likely. But if youworry about fallingdown,and never chance "up,"the sky will remainforever out of reach."

Transformation

"I blamed the Bible,when its words were not at fault,only the way they're interpretedby those too willingto wield them like chain saws,cutting others off at the knees."

Interpretation

"I think it's easyto confuse love with other things.Lust, for one. Need, for another."

Love

"Back turned, you don't have to look at what you've left behind. And the person who first turned their back on you can't watch you break down and cry. Never allow an enemy to see weakness in you."

Detachment

"Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?"

Freedom