"No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth."
-Martha Beck
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"No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.“
-Martha Beck
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