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Thought of the Moment

Healing

Healing doesn't mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life. Read more

 

Why We Are Here

Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.

- Andre Agassi, Open Read more

 

Resentment and Reconciliation

I hugged my mom's dead body and cried.  That's when I realized that I had never really hated her. I just wanted to embrace her and reconcile with her.  I just wanted to hug her for a very long time and cry as much as I needed to.

죽은 어머니를 안고 울며 난 그제서야 알았다. 난 평생 어머니 이 사람을 미워했던 게 아니라 화해하고 싶었다는 걸. 이렇게 오래 안고 지금처럼 실컷 울고 싶었다는 걸.

- Our Blues | 우리들의 블루스  Read more

 

Easy Money

Money that is easy to produce is no money at all, and easy money does not make a society richer; on the contrary, it makes it poorer by placing all its hard‐earned wealth for sale in exchange for something easy to produce.

- Saifedean Ammous Read more

 

My Liberation Notes

It's easier to love than it is to hate.

Hate weighs us down. Love liberates us. Read more

 

Brighter Days

Perhaps the butterfly is proof that you can go through a great deal of darkness and still become something beautiful.

- Beau Taplin Read more

 

Gratitude

What if you woke up tomorrow with only the things you feel deeply grateful for today?

The highest level of living requires that we are mindful of all that we are truly grateful for today. Read more

 

To be real, not to be perfect

We are here to be real, not to be perfect. Read more

 

Good Character

Good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

- Charles H. Spurgeon Read more

 

True Joy In Life

This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. Read more

 

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