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Death ends a life, not a relationship.
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life
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All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
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All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.
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family
life
inspirational
parents
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When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.
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Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves.
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Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
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But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.
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stories
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Accept who you are; and revel in it.
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You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.
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The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
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Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can't. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. an alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of thi..
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If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.
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When you look into your mother's eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.
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unconditional-love
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I like myself better when I'm with you.
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tuesdays
with
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One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
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time
love
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Mitch Albom |
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Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.
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sacrifice
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The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
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self-pity
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Don't let go too soon, but don't hold on too long.
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Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins
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love
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There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...
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You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself."
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self-acceptance
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No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.
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interdependence
inspirational
connectedness
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Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.
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faith
belief
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Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.
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Mitch Albom |
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Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.
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Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
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Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.
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there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike.' - Morrie Schwartz
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It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.
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Mitch Albom |
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Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, bene..
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Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.
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inspirational
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Mitch Albom |
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Love wins, love always wins.
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Mitch Albom |
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Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.
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rage
serenity
anger
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I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.
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Mitch Albom |
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Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.
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Mitch Albom |
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This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.
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love
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Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive.
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love
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If you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.
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But she wasn't around, and that's the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.
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loss
death
back-up
death-of-a-loved-one
parents
fight
dying
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This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.
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Mitch Albom |
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People say they 'find' love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love. And [he] found a certain love with [her], a grateful love, a deep but quiet love, one that he knew, above all else, was irreplaceable.
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We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.
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Mitch Albom |
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We've got a sort of brainwashing going on in our country, Morrie sighed. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it--and have it repeated to us--over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged ..
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The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Let it come in. We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levin said it right. He said, "Love is the only rational act."
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