Forgiving yourself means that you give up on your hope that the past will be different.

Edward M. Hallowell
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  1. Soon, when all is well, you're going to look back on this period of your life and be so glad that you never gave up.

  2. Hold yourself back, or heal yourself back together. You decide.

  3. There is a fine line between stubbornness and stupidity as well as intensity and insanity.

  4. A huge part of recovery and life -is slowing down and accepting the un K N O W N. This is how you get to KNOW —yourself.

  5. Just because your heart is beating, doesn't mean you're alive.

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