Yes, the world is full of unspeakable cruelty. But the answer wasn't to never feel hope, or bliss, or love-but to savor every fleeting, precious second of those feelings when they came.
Tags: love, hope, finding-joy, despair, cruelty

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It's the trying that heals you. That's all you have to do. Just try.
Tags: inspirational, hope, healing
[N]ot getting what you want forces you to appreciate what you already have.
Tags: happiness, disappointment, appreciation
But the things we remember are what we hold on to, and what we hold on to becomes the story of our lives. We only get one story. And I am determined to make mine a good one.
Tags: perspective, memories, life, happiness
The lived on the mistaken assumption that their lives mattered, that life was essentially fair, that it was all going to wind up happy in the end. I knew what they didn’tβ€”that everything you care about will disappear, that deserving a happy life doesn’t mean you can get one, and that there really is no one in the entire world you can count on but yourself.
Tags: self-reliance, happiness, existentialism, disappointment, choice
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