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"You either forgive a lover for abandoning you or you forgive God for taking them - either way you have to forgive..."
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"[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."

"Maybe if we love ourselves healthy we will all heal?"

"People will react to you as a result of their own mindset, rather than as a reflection of your worth. Most people use others as mirrors for their own darkness. If you have been hurt by such people, perhaps you can use these experiences to become a different kind of person-one who reflects the light within others instead of using them as mirrors. Maybe your experiences of pain can lead you to being a great leader, someone who lights up the world. Your most painful struggle is ripe with opportunity."

"How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep."

"What crucial conversations need to be readdressed in your personal and professional relationships in order for you to gain peace, clarity, and resolution? Create the space in your life to readdress what needs to be given hope for healing."
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"True love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ..."

"Before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ..."

"You betrayed me, but after all those years I discover, my tears have wiped the slate clean..."

"I looked in the window, wanting to stay - it rained, yet I remained...because you were so lovely..."

"You say you don't mistrust me, yet you quote Chrysostom - Hell is paved with priests' skulls...."

"You have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you've changed the view from my window!..."

"I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow..."

"The fragrance of pine resin is frankincense poured out-a balm of stars and snow and moonlit nights."

"You want the sweetness of our beginning without the bitterness of our struggle - what are you asking - do you want light without shadow? ..."

"Sorrow binds us - I will always cherish you - my only disillusionment is unspoken words ..."
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