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What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
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Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.
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If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't
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Things usually work out in the end. What if they don't? That just means you haven't come to the end yet.
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Don't be afraid of your dark places. ... If you can shine a light on them, you'll find treasure there.
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Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.
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Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you are young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul.
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My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.
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We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. 'Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten,' Dad said, ' you'll still have your stars.
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God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.
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Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito
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...even though I was getting better education at home than any of the kids in Toyah, I'd need to go to finishing school when I was thirteen, both to acquire social graces and to earn a diploma. Because in this world, Dad said, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you go it.
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Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.
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It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.
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I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.
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Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.
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