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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, beneath the waters of their lives.
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You're not listening with your eyes.
When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.
Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next... It is still unwritten.
Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.
Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come
You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.
the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.
All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it’s hard to slow yourself down.