Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

—Saint Teresa of Avila

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More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

—Saint Teresa of Avila

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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

—Saint Teresa of Avila

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Whoever said it got easier with time was wrong, death never got easier. The pain dulls around your heart, numbing the spot the deceased inhabited in your chest—but it was never easier. Loss was still loss—a physical pain, a hurt that reaches deep inside you and smothers your soul, forever indenting their memory.

—Kelsie Leverich in The Valentine’s Arrangement

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Be nice. Funny. Smart. Generous. Kind. Feed your body with good food. Your soul with good friends. And your mind with new things.

—Jillian Dodd in Love Me

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He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

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