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"..I buried myself in accomplishments, because with accomplishments, I believed I could control things, I could squeeze in every last piece of happiness before I got sick and died.. which I figured was my natural fate."
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"We cannot act according to the promptings of our flesh."
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"You may not have the power to control whatever happens to you, but you have the power to stop it from affecting your sense of style."
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"Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst."
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"Rather than caving in to protests, let us know who is in charge by setting boundaries."
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"Joblessness gives you control over the product of your life."
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"It is possible to be a puppet on a string, controlled by hidden forces."
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"TWO AND TWO MAKES FIVE."
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"You have no future when the past rules you."
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"87. - Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. [A maxim, adds Aimé Martin, 'Which may enter into the code of a vulgar rogue, but one is astonished to find it in a moral treatise.' Yet we have scriptural authority for it: 'Deceiving and being deceived.' - 2 TIM. iii. 13.]"
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"Nothing happens in life that you are unable to manage satisfactorily."
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".. I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating to others;, but it was always in the distance, as if from another life.. .. The people who might have told me were long forgotten, their phone numbers buried in some packed-away box in the attic."
Memory
"Time flies with you."
Romance
"Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out."
Parenting
"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin."
Family
"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."
Family
"Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive."
Relationship
"That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays."
Spiritual
"The eighties happened. The nineties happened. Death and sickness and getting fat and going bald happened. I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it."
Aging
"Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one."
Story
"Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward."
Purpose
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