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Age is real life is short. It's foolhardy to deny it. We grow up, our bodies grow frail, death is coming. There's so much I want to do! There's a whole world out there I havent seen, ppl I havent met and who havent know me. God, there 're a million books I want to read. I dont want to sleep... I want to be awake. This is my life - I want to live it
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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Friends come and go. But through the thick and thin, the good and bad, you can only ever count on your family. That's the heart of it. Family.
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me.
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mistakes-we-make
mistakes
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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She thought how sharp words could sting when they held the truth.
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mary alice monroe |
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The tree had become our unspoken symbol of that important Christmas when we had all dug deep and fought for one another--for our survival. For our family. For our happiness. And in the process, discovering the true meaning of Christmas.
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veterans
holiday
ptsd
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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This dog had shown more courage than I. This great, powerful, beautiful dog was willing to take a chance on me - a broken, depressed, lonely Marine.
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veterans
holiday
ptsd
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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All stories come to an end. That moment when we sigh and close the book, perhaps sit back in our chair and rest our palm over the cover, is met with quixotic emotions. On the one hand, we're satisfied if the author successfully tied up loose ends, turned a memorable phrase and rewarded the hero's moral choice with his heart's desire. Yet we're also saddened that the adventure is over. Sometimes when we see that we only have a few pages left..
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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Sometimes people get angry and do things they shouldn't. Things they regret.
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regret
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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A woman does not need to live among many people to be content. She needs but one true companion, one soul mate with whom to share this long journey we call life.
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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And quickly. If you let it, grief could swallow you whole.
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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inevitable. The characters we've come to know and love are no longer part of our lives. This can leave us with a certain longing. Perhaps we'll open the book again and skim through it, searching out favorite passages to kindle again those powerful emotions. But the passion is never stirred quite as strong the second time around. So it is with life. We rush through the days that we're given, eager to engage in the conflicts and passions, to ..
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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d4b4469
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The secret to happiness is to embrace the humility to accept what comes and the courage to continue on your life's path with an open heart.
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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Mom's are our best cheerleaders. No one else ever cares quite the same. Who else is going to be as angry at you when you do something wrong, or be as proud of you when you do something right?
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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Dawn tore at the seam of night, pulling the blackness back a little farther with each passing minute.
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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A woman's life has so many demands because she is the axis around which so many little planets spin.
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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Luz felt as though all the millions of butterflies that were flying on this same journey south were fluttering in her stomach.
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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Friendships were easy when life was going smoothly. What was hard was to be there for your friend when life got rough and the friendship was neither easy nor fun. The challenge was to forgive the friend when she failed.
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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She had to learn this painful lesson. And quickly. If you let it, grief could swallow you whole.
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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Treat your family like guests and your guests like family.
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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b0a2554
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My story will change, and so will yours. We'll just go on changing, making a new set of choices, then living them out. That's what life is anyway, just a long string of choices.
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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caterpillar must shed its skin five times before it forms the chrysalis. The caterpillar doesn't just change. It completely transforms. The old form dies and the new is reborn. That's the miracle that gives us hope.
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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dbe5697
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To her mind, when you were drowning and a rope was thrown your way, you didn't waste time thinking about what to do. You just grabbed it, then kicked and swam like the devil to safety.
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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No knowledge is wasted,
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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Pride of one's work is not improper, unladylike, or vain. We can all take a lesson from the sea turtle. She does not travel thousands of miles or risk all for her ego. She has an instinct for greatness --- one that I believe is found in all living creatures.
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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Our children are grown, we've enjoyed some success in our lives, and we're looking for something else now to fulfill ourselves....It's like being adolescents all over again, only this time we don't care if everyone likes the way we look or the clothes we wear. Or even if people like us at all. That nasty competition is over. I see this as a time to be who we've always seen ourselves as being, deep in our hearts.
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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b6d3239
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Synchronicity (life) isn't a series of random events at all, but an expression of a deeper order.
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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She closed her eyes as his full weight stretched over her. They fit together perfectly and as they clung together her woman's body felt that at last she had found the man's bones from which she'd been created, and she was overcome with desire to become one flesh.
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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Sully's brooding blue eyes sparked to life when they kissed, like his truck when he fired the engine.
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up with a lot of other things already there and what comes out is discontent and uneasiness, guilt and a compulsion to get something--anything--before it is all gone. --John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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After living at sea for twenty years or more, the female loggerhead returns to the beach of her birth to nest. She travels hundreds of miles through the Atlantic, her three-hundred-pound, eddish-brown carapace filled with hundreds of fertile eggs.
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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I thought of my mother and her wise advice. She'd always been there for me. Even when I was at my worst. She made me want to be a better son.
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family
stronger
mental-illness
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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A mother was only as happy as her most unhappy child.
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family
mother-s-love
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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One day she would recall this very twilit evening and the sight of her children dancing on the shore and then... Yes, then she would wish she had stopped to hold their chubby hands and play tag along with them.
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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Spring was in the air--ripe, verdant, full of promise. And with the spring came the rush and clamor of weddings. Marietta
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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And, too, there was that delightful freshness of mist and dewy grass that lingered like spirits at dawn. Marietta
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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Rather, think of etiquette as a philosophy of living and enjoying life with grace, compassion, and respect for others.
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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Call me Mamaw. That's what the girls call me." He swallowed, touched by the offer, but shook his head. "I'm sorry. It's a kind offer, but I'm not ready to go that far yet."
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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Treating others with kindness, consideration, and respect was timeless. All should be aware of how their actions affect others in their daily lives. Marriage
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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Rather than feel small, however, in this arena she felt part of something much bigger than herself. This gave her both a sense of power and peace.
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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Consider the turtle. Perchance you have worried, despaired of the world, meditated the end of life, and all things seem rushing to destruction; but nature has steadily and serenely advanced with the turtle's pace. The young turtle spends its infancy within its shell. It gets experience and learns the way of the world through that wall. While it rests warily on the edge of its hole, rash schemes are undertaken by men and fail. French empires..
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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It was chilling to wake up at forty years of age to find she had no friends, no interests and no investments in anything unconnected to her work.
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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loggerhead. 1. Latin: Caretta caretta. A tropical sea turtle with a hard shell and a large head. 2. a stupid fellow; blockhead. 3. at loggerheads; in disagreement; in a quarrel.
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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Stop what you're doing and observe your children! Lovie wanted to say to the young mother. Quick, set aside your chores and turn your head. See how they laugh with such abandon? Only the very young can laugh like that. Look how they are giving you clues to who they are.
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Mary Alice Monroe |
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love was never a sin. Not loving, now that was the very worst kind of sin,
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Mary Alice Monroe |