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"I had to do something about my longing, so I got up, went to the kitchen in my nightgown, peeled a pound of potatoes, boiled them up, sliced them, fried them in butter, salted them generously and ate every bite of them - asking my body the whole while if it would please accept the satisfaction of a pound of fried potatoes in lieu of the fulfillment of lovemaking.My body replied, only after eating every bite of food: "No deal, babe."
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"God approves our life if we attain His goals."
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"To obey the principles of kingdom is to enjoy full and whole health."
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"Life really could be an enjoyable experience, if we only knew what it demands of us."
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"Stopping, sitting down and finding time for reflection are considered to be the most essential action related to fulfilling a human's destination."
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"It does not matter how old you are. Recognize your calling and begin to work toward its fulfillment."
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"Discover yourself, discover what God has called you for, and find your place in life, so that you can fulfill God's purpose for your life."
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"Very frequently we only dream and do so because we do not know how to go from a dream to fulfilment."
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"Are you happy with how you've chosen to spend your time? We've all got the same 24 hours in a day, yet how you choose to prioritize it will make or break your outcomes. When you reprioritize your life by what brings you the most joy and fulfillment, life is rewarding beyond measure."
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"While those who continuously get themselves the supply of growth, smile through life."
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"People who simply live their life and care only about bearing children are under the influence of a misbelief that they are people."
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"But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do."
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"I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?"
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"The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being's difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himself."
Balance

"Getting out of a marriage is rough, though, and not just for the legal / financial complications or the massive lifestyle upheaval. (As my friend Deborah once advised me wisely: "Nobody ever died from splitting up furniture.") It's the emotional recoil that kills you, the shock of stepping off the track of a conventional lifestyle and losing all the embracing comforts that keep so many people on that track forever."
Emotion

"The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not."
Mystery

"One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation."
Change

"A family in my sister's neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy, when both the young mother and her three-year-old son were diagnosed with cancer. When Catherine told me about this, I could only say, shocked, "Dear God, that family needs grace." She replied firmly, "That family needs casseroles," and proceeded to organize the entire neighborhood into bringing that family dinner, in shifts, every single night, for an entire year. I do not know if my sister fully recognizes that this IS grace."
Compassion

"Nothing is so essential as dignity. Time will reveal who has it and who has it not."
Life

"If you don't learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you'll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting."
Courage

"Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: 'You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not."
Wisdom
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