When you are measuring life, you are not living it. - Mitch Albom

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I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you can't catch it.

Mitch Albom

When you are measuring life, you are not living it.

Measuring, Living, Life

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When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

Come, Gone, Heart, Love, Times

We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.

Regret, Should Have, Forgiving, Forgive, Regrets, Happened

Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

Heart, Found Someone, Giving, Found, Share

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.

Letting Go, Mother, Children, Understand, Waters, Parents

Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.

Love, Romantic, Memories, Different, Dance, Floor

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It's important not to make the gold medal bigger than it is.

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Bill Moyers

When all our efforts have come to nothing, we naturally tend to doubt not just ourselves, but also whether God is just. At those moments, our only hope is to seek every evidence that God is just, by communing with the people we know who are strongest in faith.

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Nigel Kneale

The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.

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Thomas Malthus

The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.

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