When you look at the world, the world isn't just one palette. It's a beautiful rainbow, and why not have someone to represent that rainbow? -Joan Smalls

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Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about anymore than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks. A good night's sleep is grace and so are good dreams. Most tears are grace. The smell of rain is grace. Somebody loving you is grace. _ Frederick Buechner

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Beauty is everywhere. You only have to look to see it. — Bob Ross

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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. —Dolly Parton

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Well, I suggest you sleep on it," said Aunt Zelda sensibly. "Things always look better in the morning. ― Angie Sage

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As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. (...) You don't pick out the rain that soaks you to the skin when you come out of a concert.

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They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining! ― Charles Frazier

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I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain.

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Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change. — Wayne W. Dyer

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Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back. ― Shannon L. Alder

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