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Big messages come in small packages. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove.

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Rachel Naomi Remen
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 8
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Our limitations serve, our wounds serve, even our darkness can serve.
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I think ideas only lead to change for intellectual people and not even them. What really leads to change is experience. Life itself is the teacher.
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In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.
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Cancer changes your whole life.
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Every great loss demands that we choose life again. We need to grieve in order to do this. The pain we have not grieved over will always stand between us and life. When we don't grieve, a part of us becomes caught in the past like Lot's wife who, because she looked back, was turned into a pillar of salt.
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Our wounds are our sources of growth.
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My sense is that you can never teach anybody anything, or change anybody in ways that they don't already have in mind.
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When people are blessed they discover that their lives matter, that there is something in them worthy of blessing.
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The secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.
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Fear is the friction in all transitions.
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Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.
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