"You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things."

Emotions, Pain, Truth, Happiness, Reality

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"You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things."

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"Anguish heart attack is tightly packed on to people with actions full of emotions and personal tragedies yet they can overcome it with personal self esteem and nice thinking."

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"Acidity' happens when too much of acidic emotion is still suppressed inside, let go of it and the body will respond."

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"Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.You could not believe I was more than your echo."

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"Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"He was so lonely that he laughed at himself."

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"She existed in her friends, there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them."

Identity

"Carmen knew a worse friend would have made her feel better."

Friendship

"Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives, but it seemed to give meaning to all the others."

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"The path of your life can change in an instant."

Change

"Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together."

Unity

"Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still."

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"It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn't come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren't ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal."

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"Desire was just the dumbest thing. You wanted what you wanted until it was yours. Then you didn't want it anymore. You took what you had for granted until it was no longer yours. This, it seemed to her, was one of the crueller paradoxes of human nature."

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