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"Maybe we don't ever feel that sweetly untainted and wholly majestic kind of love that takes every longing captive because we are hopelessly entangled in the illogical fear that despite all of love's grand goodness, it might not be good enough to keep us safe."
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"It seems my heart is made of tissue paper, I wish the world would handle it more delicately."
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"I do feel that I've managed to make something I could maybe call my world, over time, ittle by little. And when I'm inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I had to make such a world probably means that I'm a weak person, that I bruise easily, don't you think? And in the eyes of society at large, that world of mine is a puny little thing. It's like a cardboard house: a puff of wind might carry it off somewhere."
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"Risk is uncertainty injected into our most vulnerable places. And because that's the case, we may choose not to risk."
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"Jack could feel the fissures beginning even now, the hard shell he'd promised to keep in place so that no one, ever, would get close enough to hurt him again."
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"To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart."
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"Vulnerability creates unimaginable space to build each other up, as much as it creates ample room to tear each other down."
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"As a young girl, I allowed my self-esteem to be determined by others' opinions, and I devoted incredible energy tuning into how everyone else felt."
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"She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world."
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"So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game."
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"I pressed my hand against her hair, holding her to me, filled with the certainty that she was going to hurt me again and that I didn't have the strength to push her away before she did."
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"The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise."
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"Starting over begins when I develop a reawakened appreciation for what I already have, a renewed recognition of what I've recklessly forsaken, a rehabilitated understanding that I foolishly do both of those things, and a revitalized commitment to live the rest of my life never doing either of them again."
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"Being our best involves walking away from every situation with less than what we had when we encountered it because we left something behind in the exchange."
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"Thankfully, the nature of pain reminds us of what the ease of pleasure foolishly allows us to forget."
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"Prayer is knowing that what I ask for is always far bigger than what I could ever articulate, but it is never too big for God to understand nor is it ever too vast for Him to deliver."
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"It would be infinitely more prudent to be a single "David standing with God, than a million "Goliath's standing without Him."
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"When my vision is numbed by apathy and narrowed by mediocrity, I can stand in the presence of great things and fail to see even the smallest of things."
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"Although I rail against it, death is the dark demarcation beyond which I am at the mercy of my own end. To the contrary, an empty tomb says that my end is at the mercy of God's beginning."
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"We cannot humanize the fact that the story was penned to have the eternal God, Who Himself knows no beginning nor is in need of one, choose to experience a beginning. That is genius in and of itself."
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"We incessantly vacillate between what's behind us and what's before us depending on the current barometer of our courage and the ambivalent nature of our vision."
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