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“When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”
― Viktor E. Frankl

tags: inspirational, life, meaning

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“Time is a river, I've learned. Always moving forward. But for people like me, people who have loved and lost, the river is something we fight. We swim against the current, trying to get back to the way we once were, trying to hold onto anything to keep us from getting swept away. It's exhausting and eventually we tire. Still we push on.”
― T.J. Klune, Into This River I Drown

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“This is for the kids who know that the worst kind of fear isn't the thing that makes you scream, but the one that steals your voice and keeps you silent.”
― Abby Norman

tags: abuse, child, child-abuse, children, daughters, family, family-relationships, foster-care, foster-kid, foster-kids, parents, sons

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“One summer night I fell asleep, hoping the world would be different when I woke. In the morning, when I opened my eyes, the world was the same.”
― Benjamin Alire Saenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”
― John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love