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I have hope
in who I am becoming.
I have belief in every scar and disgraceful word
I have ever spoken
or been told
because it is still teaching me
and I have hope in who I am becoming.
They say it takes 756 days to run to someone you love
and they also say that the only romance worth fighting for
is the one with yourself
and I know by now
that they say a lot of things,
people talking everywhere
without saying a word,
but if it took me all those years to learn myself
or teach myself
how to look into the mirror
without breaking it
I know for a fact that it was a fight worth fighting.
I stood up for my own head and so did my heart
and we are coming to terms with ourselves.
Shaking hands, saying βletβs make this work
for we have places to go
and people to see
and we will need each otherβ
So I have hope
in who I am becoming.
Itβs July
and I have hope in who I am becoming.
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Charlotte Eriksson
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A warrior is defined by his scars, not his medals.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Max's scarred brow crinkled. He reached for the coffee mug on his desk. βMotive is tricky. See, what might be a good reason for me to kill someone might not be a good enough reason for you to kill someone."
Swift stared at his hands loosely clasped around his ankle. βI wouldn't. Deliberately hurt anyone."
"And my impulse is to hurt anyone who hurts you.β When Swift's gaze lifted to his, Max said, βSee how that works?"
He did, and while it wasn't intended as a compliment, it did warm his heart in a funny way. He managed to joke, βWhy, I think that's the most romantic thing anyone's ever said to me.
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Josh Lanyon (Come Unto These Yellow Sands)
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The moon stays beautiful with its craters
So why then are you afraid of your scars?
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Zubair Ahsan
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Trust your scars to find who they need to heal. Understand that people will leave your life and make allowance for it, no matter how unwilling you are to let them go.
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Kelly Markey (Don't Just Fly, SOAR: The Inspiration and tools you need to rise above adversity and create a life by design)
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We all have scars. If we embrace them and choose to learn from them, they will make our lives more interesting, and they will gift us with deeper perception.
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Diamante Lavendar (Finding Hope in the Darkness of Grief: Spiritual Insights Expressed Through Art, Poetry and Prose)
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Gillette--The best a man can get."
I stared at the screen. What happened to me? I was meant to be one of those guys, vigorous and athletic and successful and, most of all, American. I was going to walk on the moon, be a movie star or a rock got or a comedian. I was going to have an amazing life and kids with Helen and die like Chaplin a thousand years from now in my Beverly Hills mansion surrounded by my adoring family, with the grieving world media standing by. Instead, I was just another show-business mediocrity. A drunk who shat his pants and ran for help.
My life had been careless and selfish. Pleasure in the moment was my only thought, my solitary motivation. I had disappointed whoever had been foolish enough to love me, and left them scarred.
I was a very long way from being the best a man can get.
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Craig Ferguson (American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot)
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A fighter never gives up. His scars are his ornaments. He may never be whole, yet heβs bigger than all his battles and beautiful, even in his brokenness.
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Mona Soorma (Soul Food And Instant Karma)
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Your deepest scars tell the world of your greatest triumphs.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Scars are proof that you struggled, fought, and survived.
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Avijeet Das
β
Scars are your greatest medals in life.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
β
We all have scars & deep pain. It's
what makes us human & vulnerable.
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Anshuma Sharma
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The line between being demanding and being demeaning is as wide as an ocean.
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Jennifer Fraser (The Bullied Brain: Heal Your Scars and Restore Your Health)
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Know that time is a balm that slowly heals all wound. You'll heal, you'll learn to live with the scars, you'll love again and you won't be the same, nor would you want to
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Val Uchendu
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I will not play it safe!
I want to experience the length, depth, and breadth of life.
I'm not just here for the victories... I'm here for the scars.
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Steve Maraboli
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Healing is your right, your responsibility and the risk you can't afford not to take.
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Thaiia Senquetta (Honey peppered tongue)
β
Throughout our lives, pain visits us in turns. There isn't a human alive that hasn't been touched by pain. We all carry scars and wounds, but only some rise to the surface to be seen and commented on. Simply put, the story of pain is common to us all.
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S.K. Ali (Misfit in Love (Saints and Misfits))
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Here you are.
Still standing. Fierce with the reality of love and loss. Wearing the truth of our hearts on your tattered sleeves. And yes, this one very nearly took you out. And yes, there were days when the darkness was heavy and the climb out of that rabbit hole required you to mine your depths for strength you didnβt even know you had.
But here you are.
Broken open by hope. Cracked wide by loss. Full of longing and grief and the burn of that phoenix fire. Warrior painted with ashes. Embers from the blaze still clinging to your newborn skin, leaving you forever marked with scars of rebirth.
And just look at you. Heart broken but still beating. Arms empty but still open. Face raised to the sky and giving thanks for the light, even when it hurts your eyes.
My god, you are beautiful.
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Jeanette LeBlanc
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Scars remind us that we were once naΓ―ve, vulnerable, or too kind. Our vulnerability was to the point that we were laid at the mercy of another person. And that individual measured our vulnerability and equaled it to their own gain. They decided to harm us instead of saving us.
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Mitta Xinindlu
β
plucking sense
from a liarβs tongue
is rather
like dancing
on fire to embrace scarring.
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Susie Clevenger (Splinters)
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To become a better you, dare to take calculated risks and overcome your limitations. Your scars can make you a star, but you have to decide.
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Israelmore Ayivor (Become a Better You)
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For every spirit who is learning: you heal yourself.
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Thaiia Senquetta (Honey peppered tongue)
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A warrior is no greater than the scars he endures in battle.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Scars will hardly go away but with time they'll fade
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Qwophi Opare
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With your brain veritably defined by its dynamic neuroplasticity, the cage that holds you back is an illusion. Your brain potential is unlimited.
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Jennifer Fraser (The Bullied Brain: Heal Your Scars and Restore Your Health)
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My fears teach me courage. My weaknesses coach me to strength. My scars remind me not to make the same mistakes. I can become who I long to be by loving who I am now.
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Toni Sorenson
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Where you see scars I see art
Where you see flaws
I see incredible beauty Where you see failures
I see knowledge and growth Everything is perception You see with your eyes
I see with my soul Itβs how you rock And how I roll.
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Melody Lee (Vine: Book of Poetry)
β
I will not live a stagnant life. I will explore the length, depth, and breadth of what this beautiful life offers. Wins and losses, love and heartbreak, laughter and tears... Iβm not just here for the victories; Iβm here for the scars. I refuse to experience anything less.
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Steve Maraboli
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Chimerical words, the words were written,
Some are wasted; some are still on the page,
Tattered words, the words were written,
Some are young, some are aged,
Gloomy words, the words were written,
Some are unspoken, some are told,
Words were hurt, though they can heal,
Words are breathless, though can feel,
Words won hearts, words shattered hearts,
Words lost battles, words won wars,
Wars within, words had scars.
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Nishikant (The Papery Onions)
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Scars prove to the world that you were brave enough to overcome something.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
β
The scars and wounds will heal, and even fate will listen to intent when you move a few dancing steps.
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Shah Asad Rizvi (The Book of Dance)
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There are two possible outcomes for an injured person,
either
succumb to his/her injury
or
fight harder and come out stronger with a scar as a trophy...
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Hanish Kodali
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The worldβs greatest survival stories are in scars, not trophies.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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I'm a wanderer, a lost soul
a bright fire in midst of sea
a free spirit with a radiant heart
a glorious Knight with beautiful scars.
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Jayesh Ahari
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Thank you to my past oppressors. The scars you left behind taught me to view pain differently...
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Astrid Ferguson (Molt)
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I Am More Than My Race. Labels do not define me. I was told my βwhitenessβ will get me far. Is that right? I cannot tell because all of my life, their definition of βfarβ left me a scar.
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Charlena E. Jackson (Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?)
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Roses have thorns,β we whine. When thorns of life entwine. Simple things can bring solace to heart-Things everyone take for granted-Like tending beds of fragile roses-with heart full of scars
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Val Uchendu
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Teach me how to be loved.
Let me show you how to love me well.
School me in the workings of your heart, in the
language of your bones.
Let my open palm memorize the shape of your face.
Tell me the stories of your scars so I can trace them with the honor of understanding.
Do you see this fault line? It is where I was broken, over and over again, by the ones who came before you. Are you willing to take that in? My wide open eyes? My truth lives there, if you look for it. I have been loved by those who didnβt care to discover all that I am.
Will you be the one to see me whole?
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Jeanette LeBlanc
β
Itβs the scars that tell you who people are and that help you understand their motives. Understanding scars breeds compassion, and compassion breeds sight, and sight leads to forgiveness. How blind humans are while they think they see so clearly.β¦
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Daniel Black (Twelve Gates to the City: A Novel (Tommy Lee Tyson Book 2))
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In every era there comes a moment when the collective thoughts, whims, and motivations of a people become so self-absorbed, so malignant, so unheeding that nature itself revolts. Man scars the land such that it finally rebels against him. As thoughts can spread despair and death like seedlings of weeds strewn by the wind, so they eventually draw the Gardener to pluck them out. The vetches must be pulled, roots and all. When this happens, the Medium ceases to bless, and instead, it curses. Instead of healing, it spews poison. It happens swiftly and terribly. The ancients gave it a name, this culling process that blackens the world. They named it after a wasting disease that occurs in once-healthy groves of trees. They called it the Blight.
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Jeff Wheeler (The Blight of Muirwood (Legends of Muirwood, #2))
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It's easy to cry that you're beaten β and die;
It's easy to crawfish and crawl;
But to fight and to fight when hope's out of sight β
Why, that's the best game of them all!
And though you come out of each gruelling bout,
All broken and beaten and scarred,
Just have one more try β it's dead easy to die,
It's the keeping-on-living that's hard.
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Robert W. Service
β
..:Even the pros fall and get wounded. True ones won't hide nor be ashame of their wounds and scars. They'll show them and look back at them as a reminder that, what at one point seem impossible, was possible when activating that one major task, the first step. True pros will show their wounds and scars as a motivation and inspiration to others along tre way:..
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Rafael Garcia
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You whisper, you keep quiet, you shout, you cry and then, you choose silence because, during some moments of life, you truly believe that nothing can make you smile again but soon, not so easily but definitely, you come across someone who falls in love with you, every inch and every part of you, with your scars, with your past, with your voice, with your twists and turns.
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Jyoti Patel
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Every day I wake up and re-commit to my health. This is a very important step for me. I let the past be the past. I try not to dwell on the mistakes I've made, because those kinds of thoughts only bring me down. I wake up every day with the thought that this is a new day. That today I am going to eat well, I am going to exercise, and I'm going to focus on being healthy and happy.
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Stephen Cremen (Battle Scars: My Journey from Obesity to Health and Happiness, Fifteen Years and Counting!)
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You must have thought more times than you realized "it will hurt".
You should know it may. Okay. It may hurt immensely to open you up in your safe, dark space, sporadic light and chaotic air hitting you unlike anything you have known. Sometimes it will feel impossible to swallow. Because finding your way back to you involves telling the truth about oneself while pushing through a field of trees that are all whispering different tones of you.
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Thaiia Senquetta (Honey peppered tongue)
β
I know I don't have all the answers about weight loss; this is an evolving challenge, and I know I'll always be learning new things. I don't feel like I've uncovered some big mystery, but I've learned what it takes to overcome being overweight--and that it's not just about the food. It's about becoming the person you are meant to be in all aspects of your life. It's about removing the fears in life that keep us blocked. It's about being brave and learning to love yourself--no matter how you may feel about yourself.
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Stephen Cremen (Battle Scars: My Journey from Obesity to Health and Happiness, Fifteen Years and Counting!)
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Have you ever been too old, too young, too big, too small, too smart, too dumb?
Have you ever been too fat, too thin, too shy, too loud, too slow to win?
Have you ever been too scared to try, too small to play, too young to die?
Have you ever been too weak to fight, too little yet, or not quite right?
Have you ever been too dark, too light, too black, too brown, too red, too white?
Have you ever been put off βtil last, the odd man out, the jerk they sassed?
Have you ever been the one black sheep, the naughty child, the nerdy geek?
Have you ever been the butt of jokes, the timid soul, the oddest folk?
Have you ever been left out of fun, forgotten when the day is done?
Have you ever been afraid to lose? Afraid to try? Afraid to choose?
Have you ever been too rich, too poor, too venturesome, or just a bore?
Have you ever had no clue at all? Nowhere to go? No one to call?
Have you ever been without a friend? Have you ever wished the day would end?
Have you ever had the biggest nose, the longest arms, the funny toes?
Have you ever had the flattest chest? Have you ever had the biggest breasts?
Have you ever prayed your luck would change? Have you ever felt your life was strange?
Have you ever wished for something more, or something less than what you were?
If you have ever felt this way, you're one of us Iβm here to say.
We've all been there a time or two because we're human, me and you.
We've all felt different in some way because we are, and thatβs okay.
We've all been hurt; we've all been scarred. That's life. And frankly, life is hard.
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Richelle E. Goodrich (Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year)
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I don't know what kind of man I would have grown to be had I not served time at The Wilkinson Home for Boys. I don't know how those months and the events that occurred there shaped the person I became, how much they colored my motives or my actions. I don't know if they made me any braver or any weaker. I don't know if the illnesses I've suffered as an adult have been the result of those ruinous months. I'll never know if my distrust of most people and my unease when placed in group situations are byproducts of those days or simply the result of a shy personality.
I do know the dreams and nightmares I've had all these years are born of the nights spent in that cell at Wilkinson. That the scars I carry, both mental and physical, are gifts of a system that treated children as prey. The images that screen across my mind in the lonely hours are mine to bear alone, shared only by the silent community of sufferers who once lived as I did, in a world that was deaf to our screams.
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Lorenzo Carcaterra (Sleepers)
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I've defined myself, privately and abstractly, by my brief, intense years as an athlete, a swimmer. I practiced five or six hours a day, six days a week, eating and sleeping as much as possible in between. Weekends were spent either training or competing. I wasn't the best; I was relatively fast. I trained, ate, traveled, and showered with the best in the country, but wasn't the best; I was pretty good.
I liked how hard swimming at that level was- that I could do something difficult and unusual. Liked knowing my discipline would be recognized, respected, that I might not be able to say the right things or fit in, but I could do something well. I wanted to believe that I was talented; being fast was proof. Though I loved racing, the idea of fastest, of number one, of the Olympics, didn't motivate me.
I still dream of practice, of races, coaches and blurry competitors. I'm drawn to swimming pools, all swimming pools, no matter how small or murky. When I swim now, I step into the water as though absentmindedly touching a scar. My recreational laps are phantoms of my competitive races
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Leanne Shapton
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Responsibility;...the importance of habits,...- a willingness to fail, a willingness to begin again - that are essential to resilience...the single most important habit to build if you want to e resilient: the habit of taking responsibility for your life...The more responsibility people take, the more resilient they are likely to be. The less responsibility people take - for their actions, for their lives, for their happiness - the more likely it is that life will crush them. At the root of resilience is the willingness to take responsibility for results...Life is unfair. You are not responsible for everything that happens to you. You are responsible for how you react to everything that happens to you...The first word out of the mouth of the complainer is always "they"...as soon as we say "I am responsible for...", we take control of something...acceptance of responsibility is a powerful cure for pain. Even when seemingly powerless, the resilient person finds a way to grab hold of something - no matter how small at first - to be responsible for...If you take responsibility for anything in your life, know that you'll feel fear. That fear will manifest itself in many ways: fear of embarrassment, fear of failure, fear of hurt...Every worthy challenge will inspire some fear...Fear is a cor emotion. A life without fear is an unhealthy life...Proper fear is part of the package of responsible, adult living...Focus not on wiping out your anxiety, but on directing your anxiety to worthy ends. Focus not on reducing your fear, but on building your courage - because, as you take more and more responsibility for your life, you'll need more and more courage...Fear is a motivator. It can propel you...Fear works. Fear can make human beings do amazing things. Fear can help you to see your world clearly in a way that you never have before. Fear become destructive when it drives us to do things that are unwise or unhelpful. Fear becomes destructive when it begins to cloud our vision. But like most emotions, fear is destructive only when it runs wild. Embrace the fear that comes from accepting responsibility, and use it to propel yourself to become the person you choose to be...Excellence is difficult. An excuse is seductive. It promises to end hardship, failure, and embarrassment. Excellence requires pain. An excuse promises that you'll be pain-free...Excuses protect you, but they exact a heavy cost. You can't live a full life while you wear them...People who think you weak will offer you an excuse. People who respect you will offer you a challenge...All of these injuries have a hard truth in common. In the long term, the obstacle that stands between us and healing is often not the injury we have received, but ourselves: our decision to keep the injury alive and open long after it should have become a hard-won scar. It is not things which trouble us, but the judgments we bring to bear upon things...In truth, it's not the trauma that's most harmful. The harm comes when we make trauma an excuse to avoid the activities, the relationships, and the purpose that are its only lasting cure.
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Eric Greitens (Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life)
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I show my scars so others know they too can heal
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Melissa Fortune (F the 10%)
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The scars of your hardship cant be erased only time will value n your heart will be placed.
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Sangeeta Das
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The scars of your hardship can't be erased. Only time will value and your heart will be placed.
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Sangeeta Das
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Life isn't always what you want it to be. It has it's ups and it has it's downs, but you'll always come through scratched and scarred, but know that the experience is just going to make you stronger. A wise person once said.." What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" So, no matter how many times someone pushes you down in life, stand right back up and keep moving towards who you are, and what you want to do. No matter who you are or where you're from always remember you can make it through whatever anyone throws you if you just try hard enough.
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Charles Elwood Hudson
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Scars prove to the world that you were strong enough to overcome something.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Never ever wish to be SUCCESSFUL like SOMEONE else. You donβt know their STORY. You are aware of their STRUGGLE. Behind that make-up, people hide their SCARS and injuries. Behind those expensive sunglasses, they hide their TEARS. And behind that positive outlook and attitude, they hide their FEARS. Be yourself. Write your own story.
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Sanjeev Himachali
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In this life, we get broken fingers,
torn knee ligaments,
scars in the back of our heads,
broken hearts,
broken spirits... none of us make it into heaven without a limp.
But the only thing we will truly regret, is not the pain we EXPERIENCED, but the pain we AVOIDED.
Never settle for anything short of greatness!
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Michael V. Ivanov
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The scars are written ...in the stars...and from it flowers.... the unrhymed poems ....and somewhere out there...a leaf trembles...a bird cries....for it breaks ....through the frigid ground....as the rain falls....and the earth makes music again.....
.....Jayita Bhattacharjee
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Jayita Bhattacharjee
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The road has not been easy, but you are still here. Still learning, but wiser; scarred, but healing; seeking the perfection and the beauty that is already yours.
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Bethanee Epifani J. Bryant
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This is not the haze that has clouded your eyes for the first time...neither it is the fog that will mystify you for the last ....for a thirst so fierce dries your lips....for a mouthful of melodies....the thirst that overpowers every loss....like the honey that smoothens the sharpest of edges....so your lips can live with songs and not scars.....so dawn will show unannounced in the thickest of dark....so you will heal as you kiss your wounds....as you pick up what is left of the broken promises....and wishes that remain unfulfilled.....so you will press those pieces like roses between the pages....and every tear will turn to a sonnet...so in the dark.... if you collapse into a powerlessness...you will still remain.....with lips full of lyrics.....
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Jayita Bhattacharjee
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INK
Everything we know
The things that haunt us
in our sleep
The scars,
The joy,
The sweat,
The tears
Is just a bit of ink.
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Trisha North (INK)
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Real knowledge is to know the extent of oneβs ignorance. βConfucius LANA My mother was a Confucius woman when she needed some motivational words. My father was an Einstein man when everything was crashing down on him. Neither of the dead wise men are helping me out right now. Neither are my parents and all their words of wisdom. To be fair, they probably never would have condoned me stealing another girlβs identity, taking her inheritance, and using it to get some very disturbing revenge on all the men who scarred me for life.
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S.T. Abby (Sidetracked (Mindf*ck, #2))
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Faith is a decision not to focus on your scars but on the finished works of the Messiah.
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Gift Gugu Mona (The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes)
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I hope your road hasnβt been
too challenging. If it has, take heart! Iβve come to acknowledge that there
are some wounds and regrets that time cannot fully erase; however, time
provides opportunities for healing and renewal, a shift in composition, and
a scar capable of fading.
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Penelope Przekop (5-Star Career: Define and Build Yours Using the Science of Quality Management)
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That's the thing, isn't it, when you grow with Time, you learn to value your Time more than anything in this world. You safeguard your peace from literally anything that seems to pull it down, even if that means transient happiness. I learnt long back that Life is a series of lessons, some bitter and well some very very bitter, but all of them assimilate into something so serene, so beautiful actually when looked from a distance. Because each time you're broken, you're made once again, some from the pieces that lay scattered on the ground while some entirely new coming from all across the Sky where He Smiles at You, knowing that your fall was nothing but a blur in the Time that would clutch you later in Life into understanding the Truest Meaning of Life, the virtue of Patience and Perseverance, the lesson on Time, that Time alone has the biggest Smile and if you evolve with it you would walk the fire with the Zeal of your Soul that never ages, you will find wrinkles and scars but those are like battle ropes that get you motivated to walk this Earth one more time, to know that you're still alive, only your core never changes, You in your heart is always that child, the one who is always eager to embrace as much colour from this moment as your senses can. I am not hushing the child but patting it with the serenity of a grey hair, knowing that Life has been kind even at the battles that were thrown along the way, and eventually letting my heart know that the biggest war I'd ever face is within, the war that demands me to hold on too tightly all while letting go too spontaneously, the least I could find is a victory of Knowing I have done it all with an Honest Heart and a Soul that thrives on Faith.
If colours were hued on my Soul, let Integrity be my Sun and as for the Moon, I'd always be Kindness' arm.
Thank You, Life
And to every momentary transient passerby of this beautiful journey, no matter where we left off, I wish your journey finds the course it's meant to walk.
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Debatrayee Banerjee
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I'm not where I want to be yet, but surely, I can look back & smile, from where I came from......
The scars I got, turned into beauty marks.
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Margaret. N. Hove
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My mother was a Confucius woman when she needed some motivational words. My father was an Einstein man when everything was crashing down on him. Neither of the dead wise men are helping me out right now. Neither are my parents and all their words of wisdom. To be fair, they probably never would have condoned me stealing another girlβs identity, taking her inheritance, and using it to get some very disturbing revenge on all the men who scarred me for life.
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S.T. Abby (Sidetracked (Mindf*ck, #2))
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Even if your past was marred by a dark cloud, aim for a future that is bright. Stride confidently into the light, scars and all. You are more than your scars. You are more than your past. You are a survivor, a warrior, and a shining star. Take a deep breath and hold your head up high. Let your light shine so bright.
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Gift Gugu Mona (365 Motivational Life Lessons)
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Allow love to heal your scars by opening your heart.
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Shaa Zainol
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Don't be afraid to start over. This time, you're not starting from scratch; you're starting from experience. It's like a video gameβyouβve already unlocked some levels & collected the cheat codes. Youβve got the wisdom, the know-how, and the battle scars to guide you. Embrace the fresh start with a grin, knowing youβre smarter and stronger than before. Starting over isnβt a setbackβitβs a chance to play the game with insider knowledge. So go ahead, hit reset and show life who's boss!
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Life is Positive
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Itβs better to have scars than to be crestfallen.
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Ankith Reddy
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Success demands a price that only a few are willing to pay ... blood, flesh, time, money, pride, heartbreak and energy. Anyone who has ever succeeded has the battle scars to prove the sacrifices they've made.
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Toni Sorenson (The Great Brain Cleanse)
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Healing is not a process, it is a choice. Nothing can heal your scars until you decide to.
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Shilpa Menon
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Everyone has scars. Moses has scars. Elijah has scars. Jesus has scars. And, I have scars, that's what I call motivation.
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Stacy Snapp Killian aka StacyK
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These scars... They are not just scars. They are apart of you. They can tell a whole story to a person who doesn't even know you. They can be the ticket to the way you are treated. These scars... They are you.
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yasmin peral
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The emotional scars of our mistakes will teach us far more than the joy of our successes
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Steven P. Aitchison
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negative emotions such as fear can also be powerful motivators. The ad in figure 6 shows a disabled man with a shocking head scar. The ad is impactful, communicating the risks of not wearing a motorcycle helmet. The words, "I won't wear a helmet it makes me look stupid," along with the patientβs mental age (post-motorcycle accident) of two-years old, send a chilling message.
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Nir Eyal (Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products)
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There are times when I'm exercising, or times when I'm around food, and I'll think, I just can't do this today. Or, I just can't walk that extra half-mile today. I may have been feeling overwhelmed or tired, or something else was happening in my life. But, I stop and think to myself, When you think you can't, try to do it anyway.
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Stephen Cremen (Battle Scars: My Journey from Obesity to Health and Happiness, Fifteen Years and Counting!)
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With time, scars turn into wisdom.
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Shilpa Menon
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I will not play it safe! I want to experience the length, depth, and breadth of life. I'm not just here for the victories... I'm here for the scars.
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Steve Maraboli
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Don't ever
allow
the disharmony of others
to
become your own
a
mindful practice
of discernment
(and the dislike for wearing bullshit)
builds
the eye, heart and spiritual muscles.
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Thaiia Senquetta
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For me, the most interesting people seem to have the bumpiest pasts. I prefer to connect with someone who has experienced the struggles, battles, and casualties of lifeβs journey. There is beauty, wisdom, and truth to be found in the scars.
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Steve Maraboli
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Black Roads
Black roads have nothing to tell, they are embarrassing day by day, yet they smell awesome after the chaste heavy rainfall, even in the abject condition.
Black roads burn madly in the detrimental sunlight during the whole day, yet welcome the God of sun everyday.
Black roads always offer us a cool, bright strange place to introspect ourselves, to walk on it's burned skin everyday, yet it teaches us a new lesson everyday.
Don't disparagement the roads for its daily serving to us, as
Black roads are hard, still lenient to offer us a leisure walk on it.
How are black roads feel much helpless while providing a loneliest path to a strange girl.
Who says, there were no evidence. The falter black roads were the only evidence of the sight, when a girl raped or teased.
These strange roads feeble each and everyday after watching this disheartened, excruciating act. They want a perfect strange road, on which everyone can walk independently, without thinking about the passing immortal time and the culprit people.
"No worries in life, is simply a perfect destination for us"
~Sometimes, non living things teach us the best lessons.
The words of black roads~
"I always take the help of those poor human being to prove my sacredness in front on the whole world. I don't want a heavy dauntless rain to remove the blood stains and scars of tears, instead i need the drizzle to wash the dust of love spread by everyone carelessly. I am pity helpless, yet great than this artificial human being who are creating a road full of violence"
"The stains of the blood and the scars of the deadliest tears burns on my black skin everyday"
Β© Deepak Gupta
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Deepak Gupta (Inspiring Life: Motivational Quotes That Can Change Your Life)
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Level Up
Focus on your growth
Walk away from toxicity
Prioritise your well-being
Donβt take anyoneβs bullshit
Surround yourself with good energy
Choose healing and be proud of your scars
Tell βthemβ EYO! Educate your Opinion
Donβt apologise for your boundaries
You donβt have to justify your βNoβ
Build up your inner strengths
Take time to be silly and laugh
Provide yourself happiness
Create opportunities
Make βitβ happen
Nurture yourself
Level up!
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Mystqx Skye (EYO! Educate Your Opinion)
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If you want to transform your
pain into power, your wounds into
a wonder, your scars into
splendour, and your failures into
favour, then follow Godβs plan,
which is spelt as βPurposeβ.
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Gift Gugu Mona (Your Life, Your Purpose: 365 Motivational Quotes)
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If you want to transform your pain into power, your wounds into a wonder, your scars into splendour, and your failures into favour, then follow Godβs plan, which is spelt as βPurposeβ.
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Gift Gugu Mona (Your Life, Your Purpose: 365 Motivational Quotes)
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Even if your past was marred by a dark cloud, aim for a future that is bright. Stride confidently into the light, scars and all. You are more than your scars. You are more than your past. You are a survivor, a warrior and a shining star. Take a deep breath and hold your head up high. Let your light shine so bright.
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Gift Gugu Mona (365 Motivational Life Lessons)
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The fact that I was considered part of that elite group, and the idea that other people could rely on me, too, felt life-affirming... I told myself, Mate, youβre good at a job where you have to work in some of the hardest situations any person could face, and youβre considered capable of performing to the highest level. Love it. That always gave me a boost.
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Jason Fox (Battle Scars: A Story of War and All That Follows)
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I hope you don't get stuck in the atrocities of your past. For others, it may just be a story but for people like us, it's the epitome of scars and a mountain of insurmountable obstacles.
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Kamil Alvi
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Scars hold the cure.
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Abhijit Naskar (Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race)
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Imagination comes alive when skates scar the ice to tell fairy tales.
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Shah Asad Rizvi
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Stay close, don't go far, hold hands as dance heals all the scars.
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Shah Asad Rizvi
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We learned how to quickly access, anchor, and self-trigger different states, such as motivation, excitement, power, and magnificence.
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Sarah Edmondson (Scarred: The True Story of How I Escaped NXIVM, the Cult That Bound My Life)
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He wept gray tears in his anguish. All the crossings he traversed across have dissipated into nothing. His psyche is a vessel of brittleness. Throughout his tear-filled eyes, the crow's feather swirls; finding himself lost in a labyrinth, searching for a way to free himself from his scars.
Through his misdeeds, he creates more mysteries and mazes. Each piece of bread that he steps upon is covered with thorns, needles; barbed wire, hooks; and every sharp point from his own mistakes, making him feel the consequences of his own indulging indulgence.
For him, the only truths he can uncover are those that reside inside of him, and the Demon inside him does not want him to uncover them. By looking into his own mirror, he can see his nemesis before his eyes, the affliction that keeps him from the true meaning of his existence: himself and the subconscious he is governed by. The battle is between him and himself.
From within, the rabbit is perishing, he is trying to figure out how to escape. When the Almighty has switched off the illumination of his radiance in the rabbit's life, thereβs no paradise when Hades keeps on existing.
Revelation misled him into believing he could be redeemed as he is unwell in discomfort, so he must resolve this conflict alone to find his healing.
In retrospect, the previous entryway has been sealed. Through this journey of our missteps; restoration can be attained.
Rehabilitating ourselves requires dismantling the demons within us to reach redemption.
We must frolic like this rabbit lost in our own personal awareness, for we are all enmeshed in the maze of our own consciousness.
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Upon The Broken Hands, The Rabbit Looks Through The Mirror Poem by D.L. Lewis
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Sometimes courage is a quiet fight, a dim softness within you, that flickers even on your darkest days and reminds you that you are strong, that you are growing, that there is hope.
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Bianca Sparacino (The Strength In Our Scars)
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Remain close, donβt go far, hold hands and dance as the movements heal the scars.
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Shah Asad Rizvi (The Book of Dance)
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I have scars. They are not ugly. There is no
need for shame. My scars are part of my story.
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The Thoughtful Beast
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When parents desert their young children, leaving them to be raised by strangers, it is a stark revelation of their own irresponsibility, lack of love, and disregard for the child's emotional and mental well-being. By abandoning their role as caregivers, they inflict lasting scars on their children's psyche, fostering insecurities and doubts that can persist a lifetime.
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Shaila Touchton
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When you have been scarred for the longest time, it will be hard to trust, but there is a God you can trust; He does not scam anyone.
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Gift Gugu Mona (365 Motivational Life Lessons)
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Listen babe scars will never go away no matter how trying chill, as it raise painful memory work on turn it into a sweet scars to put smile on your face and others instead of crying.
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Nozipho N Maphumulo