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Gary’s Quotes

“Life is complicated. It's a form of joy to have no other choice.”
― M.O. Walsh

tags: choice, joy, life

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“Promise me you won’t sacrifice your happiness for something so cheap as acceptance. Find your courage.”
― Scott Wilbanks, The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster

tags: courage, happiness, inspirational

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“I encourage anyone who has gone through hardships to look back through their life’s chapters and see what can be turned into a book. For you never know what heartache God, one day, can turn into a redemptive story.”
― Jolina Petersheim

tags: biography, god, hardships, heartache, inspirational, memoir, redemption, shunning

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“I've been offered proof of God's existence at regular intervals in my life through experiences so profound they've given goose bumps to atheists.”
― Jennifer Skiff, God Stories: Inspiring Encounters with the Divine

tags: atheist, divine, divine-intervention, god, profound-realizations, proof-of-god

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“There’s often a reason why people and dogs bite. It’s about self-protection. If we respect what we may not know about the suffering of others and look at them compassionately, we open the door that can lead to understanding.”
― Jennifer Skiff, The Divinity of Dogs: True Stories of Miracles Inspired by Man's Best Friend

tags: compassion, dogs, inspirational, self-protection, suffering, understanding

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