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You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

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• Relationships

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

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• Life

Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing...

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• Love

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

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• Life

One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

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• Motivational

The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.

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• Life

There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer.

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• Humor

Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.

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• Love

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

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• Inspirational

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

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• Love

In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.

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• Love

Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

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• Wisdom

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

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• Love

The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.

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• Inspirational

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

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• Happiness