Layla
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“This isn’t fair to me,” she says. “You get us both in your world, but I don’t get you at all in mine.”
“Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“what other people say about us is none of our business.”
― This Far: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light
― This Far: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light
“We strive to practice what amounts to a social media version of the Serenity Prayer18: God, grant me the self-restraint to ignore the hatred that we cannot change, the courage to speak out to support change in ourselves and others, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
― This Far: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light
― This Far: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light
“Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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