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Just because it turned out bad, doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant.
Deb Caletti
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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
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San Rafael
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When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.
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Empathy took the edge off, and the truth is, we need our edge. Our edge is trying to speak to us, and we are too, too good at shutting it up.
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I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons.
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Maybe I was being too picky. Maybe I didn't want to be close to anyone. Maybe I'd just be the type who couldn't feel love all the way or something. I couldn't tell what was wrong, but what was wrong was that it just wasn't right.
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I don’t know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.
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You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say...Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.
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A person who says it's your decision is informing you that your decision sucks.
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All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because were liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.
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I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.
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Most people, it seems like they've only got one part of the equation down. Caring for themselves, or caring for someone else. And I'v learned how important it is to have both.
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I vow... to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.
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Love seems to be something to approach with caution, as if you'd come across a wrapped box in the middle of the street and have no idea what it contains.
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You take care of the people you love, but it’s true, too, that you take care of the things you own.
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This is what happens when nice people are pushed too far. We give too many chances, and so when we've finally had enough, we are well and truly done. When a nice person shuts a door on you, it's shut for good.
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She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.
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We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.
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I've wished for things and never really had the chance...It's time to stop dreaming and do something about it. You've got to know what you want, then...go.
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I mean it’s purposeful, even if we don’t realize it. The desire to put things in our path, to figure out how to finally leave the behind….
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You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I held, and held, and let hope fill me. But as the days went on, it seemed I could be holding for a long, long time. Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless
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Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he’d said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.
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