Quotes by Paula Heller Garland

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Taking a break from digging into your own issues doesn't make you unauthentic. It makes you sane.

Paula Heller Garland

The truth, for me, is I do accept everyone. I believe people are going to be who they are going to be. Moreover, I strongly disagree that it is my place in life to judge who they are. Or to attempt to mold them into whom I believe they should become.

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I had to ask myself why I'm continuing to engage in behavior I knew hurt. What was my payoff? Did it confirm my belief I was not enough? Did I think I needed to suffer? Did I think I could save him? Why not save myself instead? What a miserable reali...

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Life became more aligned when I started taking some of the advice I'd been dishing out to my friends.

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People may say no one ever died of a broken heart, but when you're suffering from one, it sure doesn't feel that way--at least initially.

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You can't sweep something broken into a bag and call it whole. It takes repair.

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One of the most important lessons I've recently learned? I have to move forward without that apology. Waiting on it has bound me to an anchor that is pulling me under. What would make the other person apologize for hurting me when they're far too sel...

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All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was.

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As I was standing in my kitchen cooking yesterday, a quiet task that causes my mind to begin reminiscing (similar to washing dishes, cleaning the bathrooms and mowing), I reached for the kitchen scissors and off I went. Kitchen scissors. Who knew the...

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When we see others cry it is difficult, not because of feeling their pain, but your own.

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Enjoy the music in your earbuds in your own head. Dancing and singing because you enjoy the tune so much you can't contain yourself doesn't amuse others in Starbucks.

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I may not always like at times, but life is a beautiful blend of joy, tragedy and dreams. If not for one, I could not have the other.

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Late that night we were both still thinking about the events as they unfolded. He suggested a drive back to the water to bring some closure. As we stood in the water I felt so thankful to have been with a friend capable of hearing and expressing emot...

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I call my it "the Book of Paula" or BoP for short. Those are my own opinions, based on experience.

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And my heart is breaking My heart is lying on the floor in a pool of tears I keep asking the same questions only to have them unanswered

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I don't know the perfect thing to say when a person is hurting but I do know the last thing they want to hear are reasons they shouldn't be hurting.

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Hurting the person who hurt you won't heal your pain. Let them go. Karma will deal with them you don't have to write the script for the universe.

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I'm amazed how my soul is served the messages I need to be fed at exactly the time I'm in need. When I'm open.

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The moment I felt my life return was when I took a breath and said to him, "No thank you. Were I as perfect as you are demanding, life would be rather boring.

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Is there anything you have been putting off until another day? How about today?

Paula Heller Garland