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Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

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Whole Again: Healing Your Heart and Rediscovering Your True Self After Toxic Relationships and Emotional Abuse

by Jackson MacKenzie

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If I Had Your Face

by Frances Cha (Goodreads Author)

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Yumdo’s Quotes

“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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“Don’t spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned

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“Still, what's happened before and what may happen later can't be as important as what's happening now.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...

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“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectation.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned

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“Recovering alcoholics have an expression: “If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you’re pissing all over today.” With all that’s happened, it’s been liberating to understand that I don’t have to carry the weight of all my disappointments or expectations. Sometimes it just is what it is. I can accept that.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned

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