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“The don knew that love is not a reliable emotion to matter how deep. Love does not ensure gratitude, does not ensure obedience, does not provide harmony in so difficult a world. No one understood this better than Don Clericuzio. To inspire true love, one also had to be feared. Love alone was contemptible, it was nothing if it did not also include trust and obedience. What good was love to him if it did not acknowledge his rule?”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

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“God whispered, "You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so many. Through that process you would grow into who you have now become. Didn't you know that I gave all my struggles to my favorite children? One only needs to look at the struggles given to your older brother Jesus to know how important you have been to me.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: abuse, accepting, answers, autoimmune-disease, bullied, compassion, crying, cyberbullying, defamation, empathy, emptyness, faith, feeling-deeply, god, god-s-love, god-s-plan, gossip, grace, hacking, healing, hope, humiliation, ignored, illness, insight, introspection, job, journey, life, living, lonely, lonliness, loss-of-dignity, loss-of-faith, loss-of-family, loss-of-health, loss-of-time, lost, lost-children, mental-abuse, mercy, misdiagnosis, misunderstanding, mood, pain, physical-abuse, rejection, self-evaluation, sexual-abuse, shame, silence, sorrow, spiritual-abuse, struggles, tears, to-live, trials, tsloama, wrong-choices, years

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“She cannot return your love. She does not live in our world. She does not even live in the world of animals. She lives on a different star, absolutely alone.”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don

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“Narcissists will never tell you the truth. They live with the fear of abandonment and can't deal with facing their own shame. Therefore, they will twist the truth, downplay their behavior, blame others and say what ever it takes to remain the victim. They are master manipulators and conartists that don't believe you are smart enough to figure out the depth of their disloyalty. Their needs will always be more important than telling you any truth that isn't in their favor..”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: abandonment-issues, assholes, cheats, conartist, liars, manipulators, narcissists, narcissitic-personality-disorder, playing-the-victim, shame

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“Maybe He'll get what he deserves. Maybe Not. Maybe I'll never find it in my heart to forgive him. And maybe there's nothing wrong with that,either. All those maybes swimming around my head make me think that "maybe" could just be another word for hope.”
― Amber Smith, The Way I Used to Be

tags: forgiveness, pain, real, true-to-life

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