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“If you don't acquire the discipline to push through a personal low point, you will miss the reward that comes with persevering.”
― Jeff Goins, Wrecked: When a Broken World Slams into Your Comfortable Life

tags: discipline, inspirational, motivational, perseverance, struggle

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“Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.”
― Isabel Allende

tags: children, unconditional-love

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“No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: unconditional-love

313 likes

“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

tags: absence, loss

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“In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this.
I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away.
I can't say goodbye.”
― China Miéville, The Scar

tags: death, healing, loss

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