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There is light in darkness. You just have to find it.
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The miracle is that your children will love you with all your imperfections if you can do the same for them.
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Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.
Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart’s willingness to feel whatever is present.
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You know why it’s hard to be happy—it’s because we refuse to LET GO of the things that make us sad.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.