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By LinkinPark12 PLATINUM
Lincolnshire, Other

“I promise you will be born healthily and into a happy family”. He was born abandoned by his parents. She was born and was in an incubator for three months. They were born in a...
LinkinPark12 PLATINUM, Lincolnshire, Other
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Work like you don’t need money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one's watching. ¦ I like change - but only when everything stays the same.


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By dracoTgrace PLATINUM
Fairview, Pennsylvania
dracoTgrace PLATINUM, Fairview, Pennsylvania
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By TheAurorasFall PLATINUM
Dover, Pennsylvania
TheAurorasFall PLATINUM, Dover, Pennsylvania
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life isn't about the number of moments you take to breathe, but about the number of moments that take your breathe away.

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By CiraJ15 SILVER
Hartland, Wisconsin
CiraJ15 SILVER, Hartland, Wisconsin
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By Insane2001 SILVER
Plainsboro, New Jersey
Insane2001 SILVER, Plainsboro, New Jersey
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I found myself looking around me at hollow faces, and wondering if this is it, if every heart on this earth has been stained. But then, when I look into our hearts, I see we're all like candles with beauty inside, masked behind wax, hardened by the pain we all must face. But when one of us begins to burn with compassion, our fragrance fills the air, and we unconsciously ignite others around us. I find that the wax melts, and that is our core, our beauty, our light that remains. Slowly we'll burn one by one, till the day we reach the end of our sticks and we're all burning with compassion. So maybe we all have to be set alight.- Percy Jackson, Wolf's Law Chapter 23.

infinity45 BRONZE, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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