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Lauralynn Mangis

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The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #4)

by Matt Dinniman (Goodreads Author)

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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed

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One Christmas at the very beginning of your twenties when your mother gives you a warm coat that she saved for months to buy, don’t look at her skeptically after she tells you she thought the coat was perfect for you. Don’t hold it up and ...more

I wish every single day that I called & said "Thank you for the Valentine's Day card." Every single day.....

Lauralynn’s Quotes

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince

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“What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.”
― Brené Brown

tags: entitlement, gifts-of-imperfect-parenting, gratitude, parenting, privilege

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“Don’t let the best parts of life pass you by because you’re too scared of the unknown.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

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“Be cautiously reckless.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

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“I know that this stuff probably doesn't sound fun and breezy or grandly inspirational. What it is, so far as I can see, is the truth with a whole lot of rhetorical bullshit pared away. Obviously, you can think of it whatever you wish. But please don't dismiss it as some finger-wagging Dr. Laura sermon. None of this is about morality, or religion, or dogma, or big fancy questions of life after death. The capital- T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head. It is about simple awareness — awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, that we have to keep reminding ourselves, over and over: “This is water, this is water.”

It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive, day in and day out.”
― David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

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