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When I was your age I knew nothing about the world or my place in it. I figured I'd be someone's wife, then someone's mother. It never occurred to me to be someone myself.

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Wendy Mass
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 22
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It's a date, Leo repeats, and we shake on it.Leo's mother sticks her head in the door. You guys are too young to be dating! Mom!Leo cries,turning bright red.
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So softly Lizzy has to lean over to hear me, I say, 'I can't face the world until I know why I'm here.' You're kidding me.' I shake my head vehemently. 'No. I need to figure out my purpose. Until I do, what's the use of getting up?
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I bet if you go through the rest of your life telling yourself, I'm sparkling, you'll have a whole different energy and experience.
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My eyes are bright, my hair has come loose from its ribbon, and Stella's scarf is waving around my neck. But that's not what I see when I look at the picture. I see three unlikely friends holding hands. And Ryan, Kenny, and Melanie are standing behind us, rapt. And in the sky above us, I see a miracle.
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Sometimes the best things look the strangest.
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Why do you like books so much?” he asked. Miles answered without taking his face away from the window. “You never know what you’ll learn when you open one. And if it’s a story, you sort of fall into it. Then you live there for a while, instead of, you know, living here.
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My arms flew up of thier own accord knoking my bag down. I grabbed hold of the desk to keep myself from falling down.
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The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.
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A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.
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When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.
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...I believe that once you find something you love, something that works, why keep looking for more? People always think there is something better around the corner. I decided a long time ago I'd stop wasting my time looking for something better and enjoy what I had.
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If everyone waited to do something good until they had purely unselfish motivations, no good would ever get done in the world. The point is to do it anyway.
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Whoa! she says as I plow into her. What are you DOING? Get off me! I hang on tight. Can't a girl just hug her big sister? She stops fighting me. Are you dying? Am I dying? Did Grandma die? I laugh. No one died. Then get off!
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Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up? All the time.
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Whereever you end up Jack whispered into my ear.I wish you clear skies. Always
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My sweat smells like peanut-butter.
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Some choices are forever....Just because people aren't in our lives anymore, doesn't mean they stop thinking about us and vice versa.
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Just as I suspected, my room does look different, post-eclipse. It looks smalled, like it can't contain me anymore. After all, I've got a whole new world to see.
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Life gives meaning to life. The answer to the meaning of life is hidden right there inside the question.
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Life is short...eat desert first!
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