

“You can run away from yourself so often, and so much, just because the broken pieces of you cut your feet too deeply if you stay around for too long. But then what if someone were to come along and pick up those pieces for you? Then you wouldn't have to run away from yourself anymore. You could stop running. If someone sees you as something worth staying with— maybe you'll stay with yourself, too.”
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“I wasn’t empty because others abandoned me, but because I had abandoned myself.”
― Drive Through the Night
― Drive Through the Night

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
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“I will come back to you, I swear I will;
And you will know me still.
I shall be only a little taller
Than when I went.”
― The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems
And you will know me still.
I shall be only a little taller
Than when I went.”
― The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems
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