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"Usually it is through loss that things come to be of value."
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Personal Development

"Rejection is one of the worse forms of pain. Loss is the worst. Grief haunts until you allow yourself to move on."
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Personal Development

"American houses...' she said, peering over her right shoulder and down the street. 'They always seem to believe that nobody ever loses anything, has lost anything. I find that very sad. Do you know what I mean?"
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Personal Development

"Sometimes losses in life are not losses at all. They are simply the evidence God provides, in order to build a story so profound, that it will cause social change."
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Personal Development

"So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's snatched right out of our hands--even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness."
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Personal Development

"The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room for the imagination to create that which, in all likelihood, will never transpire."
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Personal Development

"Did you ever know, dear, how much you took away with you when you left? You have stripped me even of my past, even of the things we never shared."
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Personal Development

"When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed."
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Personal Development

"There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand."
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Personal Development

"We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father."
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".. I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating to others;, but it was always in the distance, as if from another life.. .. The people who might have told me were long forgotten, their phone numbers buried in some packed-away box in the attic."
Memory

"Time flies with you."
Romance

"Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out."
Parenting

"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin."
Family

"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."
Family

"Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive."
Relationship

"That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays."
Spiritual

"The eighties happened. The nineties happened. Death and sickness and getting fat and going bald happened. I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it."
Aging

"Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one."
Story

"Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward."
Purpose
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