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Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)

by Kate Atkinson

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Jul 15, 2013 09:43AM

“Acceptance, when it comes, arrives in waves: Listen with your chest. You will feel a pendulum swing within you, favoring one direction or another. And that is your answer. The answer is always inside your chest. The right choice weighs more. That's how you know. It causes you to lean in its direction.”
― Augusten Burroughs, You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

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“I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking: True Stories

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“You cannot control the results, only your actions.”
― Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living

tags: buddhism, compassion, insight, karma, meditation, mindfulness

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“Wear your heart on your skin in this life.”
― Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

tags: tattoo, tattooing, tattoos

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“And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.”
― Augusten Burroughs, You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

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