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"Maturity comes with experience, not age."
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"I wasn't ready to think about the other yet: that it wasn't that I wasn't right for Macon, but that maybe he wasn't right for me. There was a difference. Even for someone who things didn't come easy for, someone like me."
"For things I am not thankful for-experiences I would never volunteer to relive-I recognize how they have changed me. My depth of compassion and humility, the sincerity of my empathy and understanding, and the duration of my patience have all been refined by bitter suffering. I thank God for the lessons learned. I am a better person for it, but I still abhor those awful trials."
"If you couldn't sense heat, you'd not be alive. And if that heat never grew uncomfortable, you would never move. And if you were stagnant-unchallenged by unpredictable flares-you would never grow capable of shielding yourself from harsher flames. So yes, life was meant to drag you straight through the fire."
"If at first you don't succeed, you're doing it wrong. Learn from the experience. Try again, but with a different approach."
"Life has me trapped in a cocoon of earth where I must grow and change until the day I sprout wings. And on that day I shall burst free, no longer marooned on a pebble of dust in a universe that only waits for me to find a means to fly."
"I believe life is an education meant to teach us the need to be better people. And I believe this learning often takes place through trial and error which may mean being an awful person at times before clearly seeing and grasping the necessity to improve. If you don't agree with me, just ask Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge. I think Charles Dickens got it quite right."
"If growing up means not seeing one's family and friends on the regular-all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up is overrated."
"Now that one was mature then, said Peter, one could watch, one could understand, and one did not lose the power of feeling, he said. No, that is true, said Sally. She felt more deeply, more passionately, every year. It increased, he said, alas, perhaps, but one should be glad of it- it went on increasing in his experience."
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"Your best friends should bring out the best in you. If they don't, lose them; they are no friends."
"Life is not something that "has" meaning. It's something we give meaning to. You don't "end up" with a meaningful life, you create it."
"Worrying is a waste of time. It doesn't change anything. It messes with your mind and steals your happiness."
"There's no such thing as a perfect relationship. It's about finding someone who matches you and will go through everything without giving up."
"I have come to the conclusion that some people come in your life as blessings, others come in your life as lessons."
"I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because he will find an easy way to do it."
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