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Sometimes the ones we love never come back. Sometimes the love was never even there to begin with.

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But how do we change something that defines us? How do we change something through which we have come to define ourselves through?

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I’ve made mistakes—many of them. Queen Latifah once said, “I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences. I’m human, not perfect, like anybody else.” A vastly more profound quote than it might initially appear.

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The truth is, I have finally realized what is more important in my life.

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The truth is that despite the picture that social media may paint, no one truly has their entire lives figured out.

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You are exactly where you are meant to be, and I don’t just mean figuratively.

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Because, in the end, what matters above everything else is whether or not you are satisfied your own self; the self within which cannot and should not be silenced.

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The most important realization about your journey to finding God is that he never left you in the first place.

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I hate to be the pessimist, but healing is anything but beautiful.

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Maybe today your journey is about finding the strength to get up in the morning, make your way to serve yourself a cup of coffee while you let the warmth of the elixir nurture you. Or maybe today you don’t get out of bed at all.