“Grief seems to create losses within us that reach beyond our awareness--we feel as if we're missing something that was invisible and unknown to us while we had it, but is now painfully gone...Longing is not conscious wanting; it's an involuntary yearning for wholeness, for understanding, for meaning, for the opportunity to regain or even simply touch what we've lost.”
― Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
― Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
“She gave me another hard look, the kind that can only travel from mother to daughter”
― The Peacock Emporium
― The Peacock Emporium
“Whenever something bothered me, I never had to tell her. She’d tell me. And when I’d try to convince her otherwise, she’d look at me and say, ‘Brett, you’re forgetting, I made you. I’m the one person you can’t fool.”
― The Life List
― The Life List
“Your greatest friend is within you, not beside you; your greatest enemy is within you, not around you.”
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“Never underestimate a warrior; the lion in him may be sleeping, but that does not mean he’s dead.”
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