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Empty Bottles Full of Stories

by R.H. Sin (Goodreads Author)

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— Sep 16, 2019 03:55PM

Sep 16, 2019 03:55PM

“we don't love people and animals because we will have them forever; we love them because loving them changes us, makes us better, healthier, kinder, realer. Loving people and animals makes us stronger in the right ways and weaker in the right ways. Even if animals and people leave, even if they die, they leave us better. So we keep loving, even though we might lose, because loving teaches us and changes us. And that's what we're here to do. God sends us here to learn how to be better lovers, and to learn how to be loved, so we'll be prepared for heaven.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

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“Books. Cats. Life is good.”
― T.S. Eliot

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“It’s about fear and love, and how they seem to go hand in hand most of the time.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

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