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“...that life is interwoven with suffering. That in every life without exception, illnesses are unavoidable. That we wil age, and that we cannot elude death. These are the laws and conditions of human existence, U May had explained to her. Laws that apply to everyone, everywhere in the world...”
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“It's a beautiful heart, not a perfect body, that leads to a beautiful life.”
― Heaven Is Here: An Incredible Story of Hope, Triumph, and Everyday Joy
― Heaven Is Here: An Incredible Story of Hope, Triumph, and Everyday Joy
“Your heart matters most, so be gentler and more patient with yourself, and their hearts matter most, too, so be kinder and more compassionate to others.”
― Heaven Is Here: An Incredible Story of Hope, Triumph, and Everyday Joy
― Heaven Is Here: An Incredible Story of Hope, Triumph, and Everyday Joy

“Life is a gift full of riddles in which suffering and happiness are inextricably intertwined. Any attempt to have one without the other was simply bound to fail.”
― The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
― The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

“Of course I am not referring to those outburts of passions that drive us to do and say things we will later regret, that delude us into thinking we cannot life without a certain person, that set us quivering with anxiety at the mere possibility we might ever lose that person-a feeling that impoverishes rather than enriches us because we long to possess what we cannot, to hold on what we cannot.
No. I speak of a love that brings sight to the blind. Of a love stronger than fear. I speak of a love that breathes meaning into life, that defies the natural laws of deterioration, that causes us to flourish, that knows no bounds. I speak of the triumph of the human spirit over selfishness and death.”
― The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
No. I speak of a love that brings sight to the blind. Of a love stronger than fear. I speak of a love that breathes meaning into life, that defies the natural laws of deterioration, that causes us to flourish, that knows no bounds. I speak of the triumph of the human spirit over selfishness and death.”
― The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

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