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"Before We Were Strangers" will forever have my heart! Renee managed to put into words feelings that my heart couldn't voice for years. It's like she peeked into my soul and wrote exactly what I needed to read. I'm forever grateful for this absolute
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“The love stories sold us the wrong thing. The best kind of love doesn’t happen on moonlit walks and romantic vacations. It happens in between the folds of everyday life. It’s not grand gestures that show how you feel, it’s all the little secret things you do to make her life better that you never tell her about. Taking the end piece of the bread at breakfast so she can have the last middle piece for her sandwich when you pack her lunch. Making sure her car always has gas so she never has to stop at the pump. Telling her you’re not cold and to take your jacket when you are in fact, very, very cold. It’s watching TV on a rainy Sunday while you’re doing laundry and turning her light off when she’s fallen asleep reading. Sharing pizza crusts and laughing about something the kids did and taking care of each other when you’re sick. It isn’t glamorous, it isn’t all butterflies and stars in your eyes. It’s real. This is the kind of love that forever is made of. Because if it’s this good when life is draining and mundane and hard, think of how wonderful it will be when the love songs are playing and the moon is out.”
― Just for the Summer
― Just for the Summer
“People delay action once they know truth—and the interim between knowing and doing is the space where suffering thrives. Most of the time, it’s not about not knowing what to do (or not knowing who you are). It’s about the resistance between what’s right and what’s easy, what’s best in the long v. short term. We hear our instincts; we just don’t listen. This is the single most common root of discomfort: the space between knowing and doing. We’re culturally addicted to procrastination, but we’re also just as enamored by deflection. By not acting immediately, we think we’re creating space for the truth to shift, when we’re really only creating discomfort so that we can sense it more completely (though we’re suffering needlessly in the process).”
― 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
― 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
“Sometimes the quietest love is the loudest.”
― The Right Move
― The Right Move
“Great leaders are not always in front, they also know who to follow.”
― Greenlights
― Greenlights
“Sometimes we don’t need advice. Sometimes we just need to hear we’re not the only one.”
― Greenlights
― Greenlights
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