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“A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends.
Real friends are there to visit you not your house!”
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Real friends are there to visit you not your house!”
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“If we keep punishing people for what their parents or their ancestors have done, the world as a whole can never move forward. Society will never grow.”
― Rising
― Rising
“Even the most gentle people have a dark side you know." I was trying to warn him.
"I know," he said handing me the other bowl of soup.
"It's how you control that darkness that defines you.”
― Rising
"I know," he said handing me the other bowl of soup.
"It's how you control that darkness that defines you.”
― Rising
“And you have a bad habit of pretending like you don't need people." There was a bite in his tone. "I'm not sorry I kissed you.”
― New World Ashes
― New World Ashes
“With time, open wounds only fester, better to let them heal and forgive than to fester with hate.”
― Rising
― Rising
“Some things that are broken stay broken. There is no putting the pieces back together.”
― Rising
― Rising
“I'd rather let them heal naturally. It's a good reminder of who I am and what I have always fought for.”
― Ashes
― Ashes
“If destroying Hell meant partnering with the devil, that was a risk I was willing to take.”
― Rising
― Rising
“I want to be as engaged and curious in my middle years as I was in my twenties."
"So, you want to party more?" Steph asked.
"No. That's not it at all. I'm not a kid. I want to see what I can do as a grown-up woman. See what I've become," I said. "I have no idea what I can accomplish as an adult because I haven't tried much yet.”
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"So, you want to party more?" Steph asked.
"No. That's not it at all. I'm not a kid. I want to see what I can do as a grown-up woman. See what I've become," I said. "I have no idea what I can accomplish as an adult because I haven't tried much yet.”
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“Jim would rub my shoulders when I felt defeated. "Eye on the prize," he'd say. "If it were easy, everyone would be doing exactly what they dreamed of.”
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“I know you’re scared. I’m scared too, all of the time. But I have been running for the last six years and I can’t run anymore. Our world is falling apart. We aren’t living, not really. We are just… surviving.”
― Rising
― Rising
“One Sunday, the pastor gave a sermon about repentance, the Greek translation of the word being metanoia.
"Metanoia means a 'change of mind,' not in the sense of a new decision, but in the sense of a whole new being," Reverend Ruhe said, roaming the altar..."Metanoia is coming to a new life. It's like stepping through a door, out of one existence and into another."
I'd never heard of this metanoia. It's a tricky word, difficult to define and hard to understand unless you've felt it. But I knew it after visiting Croatia. Everything seemed different, like that day in September when you know summer is over because the afternoon light has changed.”
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"Metanoia means a 'change of mind,' not in the sense of a new decision, but in the sense of a whole new being," Reverend Ruhe said, roaming the altar..."Metanoia is coming to a new life. It's like stepping through a door, out of one existence and into another."
I'd never heard of this metanoia. It's a tricky word, difficult to define and hard to understand unless you've felt it. But I knew it after visiting Croatia. Everything seemed different, like that day in September when you know summer is over because the afternoon light has changed.”
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“During the war, the good part of our souls won out over the bad, he said. There was peace here, thanks to "the highness of this hillside country, our closeness to the sky, and the fact that the stars don't shoot at each other.”
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