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Chelsea
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Like june bugs bouncing off a windshield, the idea simply won’t stick.
“I wanted to live more than I wanted to die. I didn’t know how to live. I didn’t know how I would be able to live life on life’s terms. But I know God carried me to the end of that journey so I could start a new one. In those few days, God brought me to the point of willingness again, to start down a path with an unknown destination.”
― Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
― Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
“I remember thinking I wanted to die rather than live through another February day of grayness; I didn’t tell anyone because I knew it wasn’t normal. And normal was all I ever wanted to be.”
― Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
― Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
“With each opportunity before me, God presented me with a choice. I could accept His offerings, His wisdom, His grace. Or I could choose to hold onto the pain, the anger and the resentment a little longer.”
― Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
― Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
“Laughter is poison to fear.”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
“Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced to the existence of a jellyfish, but I was also horrible to behold. There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter - when, after a final blow from fate, we decide to treat it all as a joke.”
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