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Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside.

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You have one family, Charley. For good or bad. You have one family. You can't trade them in. You can't lie to them. You can't run two at once, substituting back and forth. Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

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Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything.

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Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

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"Your voice will come. We all go through the same thing. You cannot talk when you first arrive." He smiled. "It helps you listen."

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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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Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.

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It's like going back to being a child again. Someone to bathe you. Someone to lift you. Someone to wipe you. We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, It's just remembering how to enjoy it.

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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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"All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you." Eddie was skeptical. His fists stayed clenched. "What?" he said. "That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind."

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To these people, unhappiness was a condition, an intolerable state of affairs. If pills could help, pills were taken. But pills were not going to change the fundamental problem in the construction. Wanting what you can't have. Looking for self-worth in the mirror. Layering work on top of work and still wondering why you weren't satisfied - before working some more.

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I don't mean you disregard every rule of your community. I don't go around naked, for example. I don't run through red lights. The little things, I can obey. But the big things- how we think, what we value- those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone-or any society- determine those for you. ' -Morrie Schwartz

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He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass.

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You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

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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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Did you feel guilty cursing God—you, of all people?' No,' he said. 'Because even in doing so, I was recognizing there was a greater power than me.' He paused. And that is how I began to heal.

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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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When your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.

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You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.

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You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've find meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

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That kind of love - the kind you realize you already have by the life you've created together - that's the kind that lasts.

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Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.

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Sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.

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As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

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I made such a fool of myself, she lamented. Love does not make you a fool. He didn't love me back. That does not make you a fool, either. Just tell me … Her voice cracked. When does it stop hurting? Sometimes never.

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No. You can't work your way into heaven. Anytime you try and justify yourself with works, you disqualify yourself with works. What I do here, every day, for the rest of my life, is only my way of saying, 'Lord, regardless of what eternity holds for me, let me give something back to you. I know it doesn't even no scorecard. But let me make something of my life before I go.. and then, Lord, I'm at your mercy.

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"Ah." The Blue Man nodded. "Well people often belittle the place where they were born. But heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. And heaven itself has many steps. This, for me, is the second. And for you the first."

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You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes." Do they ever make more sense? "No.

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Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you, as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have."

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If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.

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