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“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: activism, healing, inspirational, justice, sacrifice

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“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

tags: healing, injuries, memory, past, reality, scars, time

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“Go forth and set the world on fire.”
― St. Ignatius Loyola

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“Teach us to give and not to count the cost.”
― Ignatius of Loyola

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“And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore.”
― Anne Lamott, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

tags: depression, healing

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