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Effort Quote by Mark Nepo

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“Perhaps the noblest private act is the unheralded effort to ... open our hearts once they've closed, to open our souls once they've shied away.”

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Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole.

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