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No one tells you before you procreate that the hardest thing about being a good parent is that you never feel like one. If
“The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“...life is like an essay. Each day is a new draft- identify the strengths and build on them; identify the weaknesses and make them strengths. Then your life will get better and better.”
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“We all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, an d out of self is what us have to hand”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
“The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.”
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“When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.
When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.”
― Poems New and Collected
the first syllable already belongs to the past.
When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.”
― Poems New and Collected
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