The thing about lying is that when you have done it once, you will do it again. It’s addictive and if you can get away with it, why wouldn’t you?
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Marcella Purnama
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Marcella Purnama is a blogger and author of What I Wish I Had Known: And Other Lessons You Learned in Your Twenties. She is currently obsessed with finding the best recipe for bread rolls and keeping her sixteen plants alive.
Have you read a book so powerful that it demands to be felt, that makes you feel like the author has left you too soon and as they leave, they take a part of yourself with them?
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Yeap, bad things happens. It happens because of your stupid mistake, or it happens because some random linings of the stars that make the exact wrong things to be present at the exact wrong time causing the exact situation we have at the moment.
It happens without you ever knowing if you do things differently, would the outcomes be different? If you just save that document one more time or send the file to your email or remember to put your cup of tea a little further, would that thing still be happening to me?
So now, the one-million-dollar question is: What would you do?
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I really think He does. You have this heart of gold when it comes to others. Helping strangers out of need. Thinking the best of others. Reminding people to be positive.
You always think of the little things, like bringing house gifts to my parents every time you come to visit, or bringing the umbrella when it looks like raining.
This kindness of yours, the one you might never notice, is the thing that makes me fall in love with you. The way you always stay behind and open the door for people. The way you walk last in a group to make sure everybody is first. Your selflessness.
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Toilet. That is all you are thinking. That, and putting all your concentrated effort to keep your bladder from bursting.
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Perhaps the most well known quote about writing belongs to Ernest Hemmingway. He said, “There is nothing to writing, all you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
Why he really said that, I don’t know for sure. But we writers connect to that sentence. We understand the pain, the agony, the suffering that come with writing. Odds are the words you are pouring are the ones that have brought most pain to your heart. Perhaps they are the darkest moments in your life.
And at times, we bleed.
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There is a certain chemistry that she can’t fathom in wearing her man’s jacket. Perhaps it’s his scent, which tells her that he’s there even though he’s not.
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15. The ones who take the most opportunity with the biggest risks are usually those who have nothing to lose. If they fly, they’ll fly higher, if they fall, they’ll fall deeper.
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There’s just something magical about quotes, for they are spoken through the wisdom of others that end up resonating with your heart. Here are my top 100 quotes for your daily dose of inspiration!
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