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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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"If you just can't get rid of envy, then start creating a life, so that if you saw yourself from afar, you'd be envious of you."

"If only I woulda done that."I really shoulda done that."I coulda done that.I ask, "Do you really know what your life would be like now if you made those choices? Believing in regret strips away our only chance to create a better future. That chance: what we decide to do today, right now, in the present."

"The big miracle you await will likely first appear in a small encounter or chance event. So always be aware and open, you never know what today will bring."

"It takes a rare person to care the same or more about you than themselves. So, until you find that person, please look after yourself."
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