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There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

Mary Balogh

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Mary Balogh
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: March 24
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I have always been a spectator of life, you know, never a participant. Never. But now I am. Today I am, and I an awed and deliriously happy. This is the adventure I asked for, the adventure I am having I will be forever grateful to you.
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My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones.
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I would be consumed by you,' she said, and blinked her eyes furiously when she felt them fill with tears. 'You would sap all the energy and all the joy from me. You would put out all the fire of my vitality.' 'Give me a chance to fan the flames of that fire,' he said, 'and to nurture your joy.
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It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.
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But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?
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I do beg you to have some regard for my pride. A million years? I assure you I would stop asking after the first thousand.
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Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.
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But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.
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I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.
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Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.
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Have you noticed, she asked him, how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?
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Fear is a powerful beast, if it is allowed the mastery.
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Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.
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Stop being so fruitlessly busy and dream. Use your imagination. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your experience and improve your mind and your soul and your world.
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Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it.
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But parents, she supposed, were not the pinnacle of perfection their children thought or expected them to be. They were humans who usually did the best they could but often made the wrong choices.
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Everyone was a rose but even more complex than a mere flower. Everyone was made up of infinitely layered petals. And everyone had something indescribably precious at the heart of their being. No one was shallow. Not really.
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Sometimes now was enough. Sometimes it was everything.
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Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.
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The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away.
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