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"I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy."

"I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943."

"Serious people make a decision to read your fully story before they write you off. Don't worry about those who don't have time to know you."

"Elizabeth's back at the red cross, and I'm walking the dog."

"Every emotion in the human spectrum is actually a teacher that is here to show us the degree in which we are either resisting life or flowing with life."

"It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he put down his fork and stared at me for a few moments. 'A bow tie announces to the world you can no longer get an erection."
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"When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring."


"The good news is that opportunities for love enter our lives unpredictably, whether or not we've perfected self-compassion or befriended our inner critic."


"We have to know ourselves to know where we end and another person begins, and we have to develop the skills to navigate the space between us. Or else we will seek wholeness through false means that honor neither us nor those we love."


"We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity."


"By experimenting with sympathetic joy, we break from the constricted world of individual struggle and see that joy exists in more places than we have yet imagined."


"Though it may sound paradoxical, identifying our thoughts, emotions, and habitual patterns of behavior is the key to freedom & transformation."


"Love simply, perpetually exists and that it's a matter of psychic housekeeping to make room for it."


"The causes of familial discord and distance are countless, but the results are often the same: secrecy, blame, sadness, hurt, confusion, and feelings of loss and grief."
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