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"She taught me only how to need to be taken care of. I was here because I needed to learn to take responsibility for making my own decisions - to earn my own trust."
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"When we overemphasise miracles we are saying people could get something without qualification and merit."
"Success and greatness in life belongs to those who take responsibility."
"True deliverers identify themselves with the sins of their people, they take the blames upon themselves."
"Any church that is overly emphasizing the role of miracles is encouraging his members to be indolent."
"You shouldn't blame others for the conditions you endure, we each have the freedom to follow which path we desire in life."
"Accept that you can and will do what you must do, to take good care of yourself."
"Only you are responsible for your life and for your life and making it a happy life."
"People who are indifferent about the happenings around them are human biomasses."
"If it is God's business, then it should be your business."
"Accidents and sicknesses are accepted as deserved retribution by the person who has feelings of guilt."
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"I was able to pitch a tent and carry a backpack twenty-five miles a day through mountains-I'd mastered a thousand amazing physical feats-physically I'd become undeniably confident and capable-but physical weakness had never been the problem that I had. My true problem had been passivity, the lifelong-conditioned submission that became my nature."
"I wrote through darkness, vividly seeing: my passivity was not a crime; my desire to trust was not a flaw."
"I'd have to be impolite, an inconvenience, and sometimes awkward. But if I could commit, all that discomfort would add up to zap predatory threads like a Taser gun. I'd stun them. They'd bow to me. I'd let my no echo against the mountains.And better to feel bad for a moment saying no-and stop it-than to get harmed.I would take better care.That small word, no. I'd see its deity."
"A red leaf danced from a branch like a dropping flame, down into the calm blue lake. A gust had broken it free. There was a cold bite in the wind. It was now deep autumn in the mountains."
"I was promising myself strength.I had to write it, say it, make the effort and fake it before I actually believed I could do it."
"Death is not a pretty flower that had almost pricked me. It was not a small annoyance I could simply bypass and quickly disregard. It was really The End."
"The wisdom of my body had cultivated vibrantly since those sadness-drunken months after the rape when I'd felt so numbed by the hurt and shame that I didn't move further. No longer. The way I felt about being sexually shamed had changed. Now I was angry that others were trying to shame my sexuality in the first place. I flushed-this time not in shame-but in rage."
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