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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe time is now. The time is for reflection on what we’ve lost in life, yes, but for what we have left in life too. It’s time to begin to live life fuller rather than faster.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThere comes a moment when having everything seems to be the only way to squeeze even a little out of life. There comes a day when this job, this home, this town, this family all seem irritating and deficient beyond the bearable.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThis compulsion to look back, to explain to myself, to others, why I did what I did—or, worse, to justify why I didn’t do something else—is one of the most direct roads to depression we have. Our thoughts, emotions, and attitudes, according to Dr.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe gain the insight to see ourselves through the friendships we make. They mirror us to ourselves. In them we see clearly what we do not have as well as what the world cannot do without. They do not judge us or condemn us or reject us. They hold us up while we grow, laughing and playing as we go.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageDarkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageLife with someone else, in other words, doesn’t show me nearly as much about his or her shortcomings as it does about my own. . . .That’s how relationships sanctify me. They show me where holiness is for me. That’s how relationships develop me. They show me where growth is for me.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIt is one thing to speak kindly to an irritating stranger on Monday.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe don’t change as we get older—we just get to be more of what we’ve always been.

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