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Being Patient With Your Own Growth

You would not shout at a seed for not being a tree — on extending that same grace to yourself.

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Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

—HafizLyric Poet

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The wound is the place where the light enters you.

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She knew that love was like a seed; it needed care to grow.

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The world gives you so much pain and here you are making gold out of it.

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The only trick of friendship is to find people who are better than you.

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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

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Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.

—John LennonMusician & Activist

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Tears are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of a strong heart.

—Ba JinNovelist & Thinker

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Only a love that is constantly growing, that is always creating, can overcome life.

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You have flowers growing out of your scars. What a beautiful thing.

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It is never too late to be what you might have been.

—George EliotScholar & Thinker

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Your story matters, even the parts that feel broken. Especially those parts.

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The darkest hour is the sign that dawn is near.

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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

—Virginia WoolfModernist Novelist & Essayist

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Let me begin again. Let me revise.

—Ocean VuongPoet & Novelist