You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.
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Related I tried to go to sleep with my headphones still on, but then after a while my mom and dad came in, a... JOHN GREEN You can’t say ‘if this didn’t happen then that would have happened’ because you don’t know... TERRY PRATCHETT The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER Weird makes you truly sexy in a way the world can never know. CRAIG GROESCHEL His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS You lose yourself, Erica, because with the right person, who you become together is something so muc... MEREDITH WILD You never know what the New Year will bring. So, even if you're not yet planning to have a baby, whe... DR. JENNIFER L. HOWSE Llega un momento en que nos damos cuenta de que nuestros padres no se pueden salvar a ellos mismos n... JOHN GREEN Te pasas toda la vida atorado en el laberinto, pensando en cómo vas a escapar de ahí un día y que... JOHN GREEN Cuando los adultos dicen: “Los adolescentes piensan que son invencibles”, con esa sonrisa maños... JOHN GREEN Because I don’t believe that you are a slave to what you’ve become. I don’t believe that you s... BELLA FORREST You usually can’t recall all the people you’ve shared laughs with. But you rarely forget the... MYA ROBARTS Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE Do you have any idea what it feels like to suddenly realize that the reason you’ve have been so lo... OLIVIA FULLER Do you know what it’s like to like someone so much you can’t stand it and know that they’ll ne... JENNY HAN We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL There is no greater feeling of love than the love you feel when someone you know whom is special thr... FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE You can’t really appreciate the joy of winning, until you’ve failed along the way. DAN WALDSCHMIDT The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great s... LEMONY SNICKET The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would hea... ANDY BEHRMAN Creo que somos más grandes que la suma de nuestras partes. JOHN GREEN Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is th... JEAN KERR The key to all of your behaviors is hidden in a box that you can’t open using normal tools, your s... GERARD ARMOND POWELL When i look in your eyes is that you baby, or just a brilliant disguise. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Ah, sweetie. If the poets couldn’t unriddle them, then you certainly can’t. Be kind, and keep yo... ALLYSE NEAR Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-impo... ANDRé GIDE To know wisdom is to be all knowledgeable ,to use that knowledge for the greater good is to no that ... GARY F EVANS... In literature, the reader standing at the threshold of the end of a book harbors no illusion that th... JOHN M. KELLER If you want a great site, you’ve got to test. After you’ve worked on a site for even a few weeks... STEVE KRUG this sounds a little simple, but I think if we didnt know illness we wouldnt really feel the exhilir... PRISCILLA WARNER I know the journey seems so long You feel you're walking on your own But there has never... JEREMY CAMP The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great... LEMONY SNICKET If you have a dream and a desire to pursue it with every fiber of your being, but can’t move past ... CHRIS GARDNER Hence arose the saying, "If I love you, what is that to you?" We say so, because we feel that what w... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Joy is something we can’t manufacture. Joy happens to us not because of us. TODD STOCKER Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... ANNE FRANK You came back because you’ve been running your whole life, and you finally realized you can’t ru... DAN BROWN But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what yo... AARON SPELLING Home… hard to know what it is if you’ve never had oneHome… I can’t say where it is but I kno... U2 These are the moments I fall deeper in love with him. When neither of us says anything, and we just ... AMANDA GRACE I want you to trust yourself, baby. Love is all that matters and you’ve always known that. You’v... JENNIFER ELISABETH If we can’t feel into the heart of grief, we can’t truly move on to experience hope and joy. We ... SHARON WEIL When I was a young man, I didn't think about having a family. My wife and I were too poor to have ba... RAY BRADBURY Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES It’s not only about sadness. In truth, sadness really has little to do with it. Depression is pain... J.A. REDMERSKI A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are e... ADAM BALDWIN Doctors Know A Lot About Disease, But Know Nothing About Health! THEHEALTHFOODGURU Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you ... KELLY MCGILLIS Booze makes you stupid and like it. It makes you fall around and not care. And eventually, stupid is... PLEASEFINDTHIS Las cosas nunca suceden como yo las imagino. JOHN GREEN If I give you the right conditions to work, and I put you in a beautiful place, where you feel a lit... BRUNELLO CUCINELLI I know what it is to become something you hate, I know how it hurts. But life is full of hurt. And y... VERONICA ROTH The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel ERICA JONG I fear oblivion' he said. "I fear it like a proverbial blind man fears the dark AUGUSTUS WATERS THE FAULT IN OUR STARS Dogs' lives are short, but you know that going in. You know the pain is coming, you're going to lose... DEAN KOONTZ Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. Baby you don’t even know I’m falling apart In your fun and games, You’ve stolen my heart. AHMED ALI ANJUM You can fall on your face but your determination is greater than the challenges in front of you. So,... ABDULAZEEZ HENRY MUSA Always aspire to be greater than what you are because you never know what you will discover about yo... MANDI J When you express your gratitude, you will bring joy to others’ lives.When others know joy, your li... ARTHUR DOBRIN The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in ... HARLAN MILLER Never underestimate a boy like me. I’m like no one you’ve ever met, and II’m stronger than I s... OLASOT When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I... P. J. O'ROURKE A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are e... ADAM BALDWIN Having a baby takes so much from you. It's the most glorious thing you'll ever do, but the a... HALLE BERRY Cliches became cliches for a reason; that they usually hold at least a modicum of truth, and the fol... WILLIAM GIBSON We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness. PIERRE CORNEILLE This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not... STEVEN SPIELBERG He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY Whatever you do in life will be insignificant. but it is very important that you do it because, You ... WILL FETTERS The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER My illness is now in remission, and on a day-to-day basis, I truly feel amazing. I wake up with such... ELLA WOODWARD If you think back and replay your year, if it doesn't bring you tears either of joy or sadness, cons... ALLY MCBEAL You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read. DR. SEUSS You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater ... DOUG MACGREGOR And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side ef... JOHN GREEN GOD IS ALWAYS WITH US HE'S NEVER TOOK A SICK DAY ! MITCHELL GREEN Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER You Have Seen the Cure for Cancer Many Times, Even Right Now! So the Problem is Not Finding a Cure, ... THEHEALTHFOODGURU I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've al... SAM SMITH Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around.... BOB MARLEY But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me... AARON SPELLING The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind happiness not always... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI When you understand that through the power of conversion in solitude you can become great, so many t... SUNDAY ADELAJA Dogs’ lives are short, too short, but you know that going in. You know the pain is coming, you’r... DEAN KOONTZ Dogs’ lives are short, too short, but you know that going in. You know the pain is coming, you’r... DEAN KOONTZ
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