Here is a small list of the most important things I've learned to date (some are quotes, others are just lessions):
Love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness (Wally Lamb)
Be a man (Pook)
Keep moving forward (Walt Disney)
We will find strength in what remains behind
The meaning of life is to live it
It's not about how hard you can hit, but how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. (Rocky Balboa)
Release control of the outcome
Know theyself. Love thyself. Be thyself. (<--as a long process rather than a truth)
and finally, the quote that came to me in the wake of all the destruction in my life that lifted me up:
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow. --Dorothy Thompson
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