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"Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can't see it."
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"Oh, to awake from dreaming!"

"Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound."

"We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time."

"I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, "A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost," while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head."

"I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got."

"I will never tell another person, "I don't understand you... and why? Because if I say that, it means that I am disabled in a way. The inability to connect to another's perspective is, I believe, a disability."
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"The question isn't who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of?"

"Words don't have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess."

"If you have never met a woman that would never give up, then you have never met a woman that has seen miracles."

"Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can heal ourself and others."

"The goal of a life purpose is not what you will create, but what it will make you into for creating it."

"You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don't also make it a need."

"It is not lies or a lack of loyalty that ends a relationship. It is the agonizing truth that one person feels in their heart on a daily basis. It is realizing that you are coping and not living. It is the false belief that there is a verse, quote, phrase or talk that will magically make you feel content, complete or not care. However, it doesn't last longer than a few days, before your mind and heart goes back to what it wants. It is the moment you realize that you left without ever leaving. It is the moment you realize that fear, shame or guilt is the only thing standing in the way of the life God meant for you to live."

"If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest."
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