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"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." Unknown
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You shine all the time, Angel, and in these dark times, your inner beauty will continue to illuminate around you. Know that when it seems the world can't get any darker and you don't have the strength to shine your light, let those who love you shine for you and show you the way again."
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Thoughts on Becoming a Mother: There are women that become mothers without effort, without thought, without patience or loss and though they are good mothers and love their children, I know that I will be better. I will be better not because of genetics, or money or that I have read more books but because I have struggled and toiled for this child. I have longed and waited. I have cried and prayed. I have endured and planned over and over again. Like most things in life, the people who truly have appreciation are those who have struggled to attain their dreams. I will notice everything about my child. I will take time to watch my child sleep, explore and discover. I will marvel at this miracle every day for the rest of my life. I will be happy when I wake in the middle of the night to the sound of my child, knowing that I can comfort, hold and feed him and that I am not waking to take another temperature, pop another pill, take another shot or cry tears of a broken dream. My dream will be crying for me. I count myself lucky in this sense; that God has given me this insight, this special vision with which I will look upon my child that my friends will not see. Whether I parent a child I actually give birth to or a child that God leads me to, I will not be careless with my love. I will be a better mother for all that I have endured. I am a better wife, a better aunt, a better daughter, neighbor, friend and sister because I have known pain. I know disillusionment as I have been betrayed by my own body. I have been tried by fire and hell many never face, yet given time, I stood tall. I have prevailed. I have succeeded. I have won. So now, when others hurt around me, I do not run from their pain in order to save myself discomfort. I see it, mourn it, and join them in theirs. I listen. And even though I cannot make it better, I can make it less lonely. I have learned the immense power of another hand holding tight to mine, of other eyes that moisten as they learn to accept the harsh truth and when life is beyond hard. I have learned a compassion that only comes with walking in those shoes. I have learned to appreciate life. Yes I will be a wonderful mother. " ~ Maria (http://willtheyhavehiseyes.blogspot.com%29/ 10/24/2007
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God understands greiving days. It is okay to cry for an entire day for the one you loved so much and have to go on without. But it is the devil who keeps that grief in your heart permanently. God knows you will be sad and allows you those days, but you can't let that grief take over all the parts of your life. You must be open to good things, because those good and positive things are God. You are not doing an injustice to the one you have lost if you move on, you are honoring them. They are waiting for you to smile again. Letting God do good with you is the right thing to do. ~ "ourlittlebean" 11/07
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"You can’t grasp the loss until you understand the gain."
". . . what I can’t understand is why our story has to be a secret. When a family member dies, you grieve with the support of all the people in your life. But when the baby growing inside of you dies, you lock the sorrow inside your house and walk around in the outside world as if nothing has been lost. So I'm done keeping this a secret." ~ from abj22 on her blog dated 11/15/07
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"God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them." ~ Max Lucado
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1 Thessalonians 5:17-18 - Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
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"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next." ~Gilda Radner
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"This isn't something you get over. It's just something you get through, and then you carry it around with you for the rest of your life. It's part of your story now. Part of your history. It'll always, always hurt. Just not quite as bad someday." from Lucious Lemon by Heather Swain
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"Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it." ~ Unknown
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When God takes something from your grasp, He's not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better.
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The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.
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"When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength." ~ Dalai Lama
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My Birthverse from Titus 3:5 NIV - He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
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Sometimes we expect more from others because we would be willing to do that much for them.
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"Your God is big, and He has a big plan for you . . . and one day you'll see . . . that plan will call you mommy." from the blog of Maydaygirl
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"Loss has been part of my journey, but it has also shown me what is precious." from the movie Message in a Bottle
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"Don't hold on to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love." ~Unknown
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"You will be happy again. Life will become joyful again. And somehow, some way, if you want to become a parent, you will." - Alice Domar Ph.D., author of "Conquering Infertility"
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Mark 11-23-24: "Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."
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"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." -- Jeremiah 29:11
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Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. The LORD answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant. -- Genesis 25:21
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Those who were full hire themselves out for food, but those who were hungry hunger no more. She who was barren has borne seven children, but she who has had many sons pines away. The LORD brings death and makes alive; he brings down to the grave and raises up. -- 1 Samuel 2:5
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He settles the barren woman in her home as a happy mother of children. Praise the LORD. -- Psalm 113:9
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His promise is near. Keep believing Him for His promise.
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Make sure you pray, and pray believing God will answer.
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“And even though I'm walkin' through the valley of the shadow, I will hold tight to the hand of Him, whose love will comfort me. And when all hope is gone and I've been wounded in the battle, He is all the strength that I will ever need. He will carry me." ~ Mark Schultz
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Prayer should never be your last resort, it should be your first response.
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"After a miscarriage, you grieve for a person you never knew, and for a relationship that ended before it really began. You grieve not for a person who has lived and died but for an unlived life. You grieve for the loss of your future as the parent of the baby who has died. You are sad not just because of what you have lost but because of what will never be."
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“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said; people will forget what you did; but they will never forget how you made them feel.” - Maya Angelou
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"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us." - Helen Keller
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"My Jesus is the same as He was before I walked into this room..." - Angie Smith, Bring the Rain
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"The risk of love is loss and the price of loss is grief, but the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love." --Hilary Stanton Zunin
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"Ain't no shame in holding on to grief as long as you make room for other things." Bubbles (Reginald) from The Wire
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"The only way you deal with those things [a tragedy], I think, is you just gotta focus on what's left - what you have." Senator Joe Biden, Delaware (in an interview about losing his first wife and young daughter in a car accident)
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I thought of you with love today, but that is nothing new.
I thought about you yesterday and the day before that too.
I think of you in silence, I often say your name,
but all I have is memories and your picture in a frame.
Your memory is my keepsake with which I’ll never part.
God has you in his keeping. I have you in my heart.
I shed tears for what might have been. A million times I’ve cried.
If love alone could have saved you, you never would have died.
In life I loved you dearly, in death I love you still.
In my heart you hold a place no one can ever fill.
It broke my heart to lose you, buy you didn’t go alone.
For part of me went with you, the day God took you home.
~ From the blog of Biogal, as printed on Jen's blog
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We know we'll have a baby. And we're going to have the baby we're supposed to have. Whatever baby we end up with will be the right baby. Our baby. And we know that we'll hold that child and think, "If our journey had been easy, we wouldn't have you." ~ Emily Giffin (Baby Proof)
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"God doesn't always change the circumstances, He did not change them for Jesus on that hillside outside Jeruselum. But the cross is also proof that God always has a purpose in the circumstances and that His purpose and His plan will prevail and will triumph through any circumstances in this world."
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"He loves you right where you are, but He loves you too much to leave you there." from Angie Smith's blog, Bring the Rain
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The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. ~ Robert Ingersoll
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Grief is Not a Sign of Weakness
Nor a Loss of Faith
It is the Price Of Love
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Do not make someone a priority if they are only willing to make you an option.
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A Different Child (Pandora MacMillian)
People notice there's a special glow around you.
You grow surrounded by love, never doubting you are wanted;
Only look at the pride and joy in your mother and father's eyes.
And if sometimes between the smiles
There's a trace of tears, one day you'll understand.
You'll understand there was once another child
A different child who was in their hopes and dreams.
That child will never outgrow the baby clothes,
That child will never keep them up at night,
In fact, that child will never be any trouble at all.
Except sometimes, in a silent moment,
When mother and father miss so much that different child.
May hope and love wrap you warmly
And may you learn the lesson forever
How infinitely precious, how infinitely fragile
Is this life on earth.
One day, as a young man or woman
You may see another mother's tears
Another father's silent grief
Then you, and you alone
Will understand
And offer the greatest comfort.
When all hope seems lost,
You will tell them with great compassion,
"I know how you feel.
I'm only here because my parents tried again."
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"The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you don't use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive."
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"The only way to the other side is through it." from The Pilot's Wife
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I wait patiently for the Lord;
He turned to me and heard my cry.
He lifted me out of the slimy pit,
out of the mud and mire;
He set my feet on a rock
and gave me a firm place to stand.
He put a new song in my mouth,
a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear
and put their trust in the Lord.
Psalm 40:1-3
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If I could do everything, then there'd be no reason for hope. - Michael J. Fox, 2009
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Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. ~ Philippians 4:6, NLT
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When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
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"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough." Oprah Winfrey
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"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day, I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return."
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"Life is Difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. Once we truly know that life is difficult--once we truly understand and accept it--then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters." The Road Less Traveled
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Since I'm not sure of the address to which to send my gratitude, I put it out there in everything I do. - Michael J. Fox, 2009
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"Once you choose hope, anything's possible." ---- Christopher Reeve
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"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Here's to trusting that the end is worth it and never letting go of it's promise. - Unknown
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"The English language lacks the words 'to mourn an absence.' For the loss of a parent, grandparent, spouse, child or friend we have all manner of words and phrases, some helpful, some not. Still, we are conditioned to say something, even if it is only 'I am sorry for your loss.' But for an absence, for someone who was never there at all, we are wordless to capture that particular emptiness. For those who deeply want children and are denied them, those missing babies hover like silent, ephemeral shadows over their lives. Who can describe the feel of a tiny hand that is never held?" - Laura Bush
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"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” ~ Maya Angelou
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"Courage is fear that has said its prayers." ~ Dorothy Bernard
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"You can't just sit around waiting for luck to see you through." President Obama (quoting his mother) 9.14.10
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"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. ” - Mary Anne Radmacher
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"Anyone can give up, it is the easiest thing to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that is true strength." Unknown
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Disappointment is changed by altering only one letter . . . the first one: Turn Disappointment into His Appointment. Then stand still and watch Him keep His appointment with your destiny. Romans 8:31-39
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"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen." -- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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“I beg you…to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without ever noticing it, live your way into the answer…” -- Rainer Maria Rilke
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“God is able to do immeasurably more than we could ask or imagine.” Ephesians 3:20
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"Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~ John Wayne
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“Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you know someone who has lost a child - and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died--you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift." ~ Elizabeth Edwards (1949 - 2010)
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"But for an absence, for someone who was never there at all, we are wordless to capture that particular emptiness. For those who deeply want children and are denied them, those missing babies hover like silent, ephemeral shadows over their lives. Who can describe the feel of a tiny hand that is never held?" ~ Laura Bush
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“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together, there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart . . . I'll always be with you.” ~ Christopher Robin to Pooh
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"Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps if you aren't willing to move your feet." ~ Unknown
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That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
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"Be thankful for what you have because it might be something that someone else would die to have." ~ kekis
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"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling." -Margaret B. Runbeck
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"You can’t plan everything and if you do, you could missing out on so much that life has to offer. And that? That is true loss." ~ Beth Fletcher, I Should be Folding Laundry
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“Nature has got it all wrong: When you are younger, it should be harder to get pregnant, and as you get older it should be easier. When you are so ready, you can’t do it to save your life. And when you are 21, you are so not ready, but you are ripe as could be. The eggs should become more developed the older you get, not die slowly from the day you’re born. That’s one thing God got wrong.” – Halle Berry
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"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Perhaps our eyes need to be washed with tears every now and then so we can see our life with a clearer view again." ~ Unknown
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“We are not defined by our trials, but by how we face them. We are all afraid; bravery is a choice, that though you may lose, you shall never be defeated.” ~ Jill Pendley
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"I am aware that I am less than some people prefer me to be, but most people are unaware that I am so much more than what they see." ~ Douglas Pagels
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On Children by Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.
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"To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny" ~ Alan Cohen
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A Woman's heart is the most delicate and astonishing thing God ever made. It holds the secrets of eternity, corridors to divinity, treasures of solitude, bounties of loyalty and silence to be heard . . . (cited in blog text)
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"There are always some people who suffer while battling against the winds of the time but there are others who suffer for not battling, the first are called warriors and the latter are cowards." ~ Asad Wahab
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"You block your dreams when you let your fear grow bigger than your faith. Be courageous." ~ Rev Run
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"Doubt is the Lock. Faith is the Key."
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"Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out." ~ Katherine Dunham
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In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure. ~ Author Unknown
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It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do. ~ Elbert Hubbard
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It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind. ~ Alex Karras
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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face . . . we must do that which we think we cannot. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.
~Ayn Rand
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. ~ Maya Angelou
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Promise me you'll always remember . . . You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ~ Christopher Robin
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"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours." ~ Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)
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"In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement." ~ Abraham Lincoln (US President who lost 3 sons)
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We are not our past. Our past reflects varied experiences good and bad that give us wisdom, abilities and feelings. While those experiences shaped our journey and some could be hurtful, they do not define who we are, what we can be or limit where we can go in the future. When we release the hold of the past over us, we free ourselves to embrace the wonder of all we can be and d0. ~ From Life Is A Fork In The Road
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We take what God gives us and we say, "Thank You," and sometimes the life we're given is better than anything we could have planned for ourselves. ~ "4LittleDucks"
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"What if Your blessings come through raindrops? What if Your healing comes through tears? What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You're near? What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise?" ~ "Blessings" by Laura Story
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"A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention it, and they go on from day to day as if it hadn't happened, so people imagine a woman in this situation never really knew or loved what she had. But ask her sometime: how old would your child be now? And she'll know." ~ Barbara Kingsolver (Animal Dreams)
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“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and
shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.” ~Eskimo Proverb
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I thought that prattling boys and girls would fill this empty room.
That my rich heart would gather flowers from childhood's opening bloom.
One child and two graves are mine, this is God's gift to me;
a bleeding, fainting, broken heart, this is my gift to thee.
~ Elizabeth Prentiss
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“Your journey has molded you for the greater good. It was exactly what it needed to be. Don’t think you’ve lost time. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time.” ~ Asha Tyson
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"Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances, and they become more extraordinary because of it." ~ Roberston Davies
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"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth." ~ Benjamin Disraeli
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"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight." ~ Kahlil Gibran
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"Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark." ~ Unknown
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"Don't quit before your miracle. When you're in the trenches of a transformation, it is hard to see your miracle coming." ~ Karen Salmansohn
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"Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be . . . Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life." ~ Joan Didion
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"Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out." ~ Katherine Dunham
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In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure. ~ Author Unknown
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It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do. ~ Elbert Hubbard
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It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind. ~ Alex Karras
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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face . . . we must do that which we think we cannot. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.
~Ayn Rand
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. ~ Maya Angelou
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Promise me you'll always remember . . . You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ~ Christopher Robin
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"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours." ~ Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)
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"In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement." ~ Abraham Lincoln (US President who lost 3 sons)
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We are not our past. Our past reflects varied experiences good and bad that give us wisdom, abilities and feelings. While those experiences shaped our journey and some could be hurtful, they do not define who we are, what we can be or limit where we can go in the future. When we release the hold of the past over us, we free ourselves to embrace the wonder of all we can be and d0. ~ From Life Is A Fork In The Road
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We take what God gives us and we say, "Thank You," and sometimes the life we're given is better than anything we could have planned for ourselves. ~ "4LittleDucks"
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"What if Your blessings come through raindrops? What if Your healing comes through tears? What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You're near? What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise?" ~ "Blessings" by Laura Story
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"A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention it, and they go on from day to day as if it hadn't happened, so people imagine a woman in this situation never really knew or loved what she had. But ask her sometime: how old would your child be now? And she'll know." ~ Barbara Kingsolver (Animal Dreams)
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“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and
shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.” ~Eskimo Proverb
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I thought that prattling boys and girls would fill this empty room.
That my rich heart would gather flowers from childhood's opening bloom.
One child and two graves are mine, this is God's gift to me;
a bleeding, fainting, broken heart, this is my gift to thee.
~ Elizabeth Prentiss
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“Your journey has molded you for the greater good. It was exactly what it needed to be. Don’t think you’ve lost time. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time.” ~ Asha Tyson
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"Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances, and they become more extraordinary because of it." ~ Roberston Davies
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"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth." ~ Benjamin Disraeli
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"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight." ~ Kahlil Gibran
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"Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark." ~ Unknown
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"Don't quit before your miracle. When you're in the trenches of a transformation, it is hard to see your miracle coming." ~ Karen Salmansohn
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"Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be . . . Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life." ~ Joan Didion
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“Your
journey has molded you for the greater good. It was exactly what it needed to
be. Don't think you've lost time. It took each and every situation you have
encountered to bring you to now. And now is right on time." ~ Asha Tyson
