"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."
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"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.“
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"Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own."
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"Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain."
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"People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around."
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"Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier."
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"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
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