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It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

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Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart.

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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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Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.

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The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why we tried so hard to make our mark in America. To be...more

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You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-- no matter how smart or accomplished--they cry, they yearn, they h...more

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

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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...more

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She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

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You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

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The backside of mountain is a fight against human nature," he said. "You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

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I love you every day,Mom

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

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Tell me about your family," I said. And so she did. I listened intently as my mother went through each branch of the tree. Years later, after the fune...more

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But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.