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“It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“Every life has one true love snapshot.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.”
― The Happiness Project
― The Happiness Project
“If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts, there would be no need for prayer at all.”
― Everything Starts from Prayer: Mother Teresa's Meditations on Spiritual Life for People of All Faiths
― Everything Starts from Prayer: Mother Teresa's Meditations on Spiritual Life for People of All Faiths
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