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"Here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond - not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed ..."
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"I had to break to pieces, so I could reassemble even stronger."

"Comport yourself with grace under pressure."

"Even the smartest and most successful of people will experience lower self-confidence occasionally, but the difference is that they deliberately shift out of it and refuse to stay there."

"As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course."

"If you can't forget about all the great pains you've endured, as many of us can't, at least take some time to celebrate the fact that you've somehow kept going, in spite of it all. And you've certainly kept growing, because of it all."

"What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed."

"People give up. People settle. People persevere. And you can do all three if you're smart enough."

"You are a failure not the time when you are defeated.. but when you give up fighting."

"You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you."

"Pure heart begets pure thoughts."
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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...."

"If you don't regard your word as a sacred covenant, then there is nothing in you I can honor ..."

"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."
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