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🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences

1. Forgiving yourself is the ultimate goal of life.
2. If you cannot forgive yourself, then you won't be able to forgive others.
3. It's never too late to forgive yourself.

☘️ How the Book Changed Me

• It helps me to come out from the lowest point of my life.

✍️ Top Quotes From the Book

• But my transformation didn’t happen overnight. First, I would have to sink lower as I fought to overcome the violent legacy of my past.
• In that moment, I made a promise to myself that I would not leave prison worse than I had entered.
• But my father intervened with words of wisdom. “It’s okay,” he reassured me. “He’ll come to you. It just takes him a little bit of time to warm up to people.”
• But Tom’s words stayed with me. It had been a long time since someone had said something affirming about me that wasn’t connected to violence. It made me feel like I could be good at something other than hustling drugs and hurting people.
• Anytime I got angry at one of the other inmates, I would immediately grab a lined notepad and begin writing down what I wanted to do to him and why.
• I thought I had been fighting for my dignity and respect, but I hadn’t realized how undignified and disrespectful my anger caused me to be.
• Even amid the pain, fear, and destruction I had experienced and inflicted in these streets, there was still hope. And there still is.

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