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Problems are not the problem coping is the problem.

The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bor...

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Anne LamottTraveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of sh...

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Anne LamottTraveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

She had worn the Morgenstern ring since Jace had left it for her, and sometimes she wondered why. Di...

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On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is ...

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Deepak ChopraThe Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth...

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He wants me to tell him about the front; he is curious in a way that I find stupid and distressing; ...

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Give me loveGive me loveGive me peace on earthGive me lightGive me lifeKeep me free from birthGive m...

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whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent...

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Something still exists as long as there's someone still around to remember it.

Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.

This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable b...

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Throw off your grief,' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or...

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There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's somethin...

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The emotional, loving, moody child had small chance of developing into a happy woman. Had she as a g...

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He was trying hard to continue to exist as himself despite the unlikeliness of everything.

I told her I was not sure I could bear living with memories, she said, Look up at the stars, look, t...

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One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a proble...

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Robert FulghumUh-oh - Some Observations From Both Sides Of The Refrigerator Door

When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

Everybody tries to protect this vulnerable two three four five six seven eight year old inside, and ...

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