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"I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place."
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"In the darkness, he is invisible, but I can still feel him beside me. Sometimes you don't have to see something to know it is there."
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"Make NOW the primary focus of your life!"
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"If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there."
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"Your presence is the greatest gift you can offer."
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"Breathe deeply and remember to love."
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"When your heart is open, your eyes see the beauty that is all around you."
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"We mustn't let next week rob us of this week's joy."
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"Cath shook her head. "Now is all you get," she spat out, wishing she could make more sense. Wishing for more words, or better ones. "Now is all you ever get."
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"If you want to avoid emotional mediocrity, be on time for every present moment."
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"Whatever the depth of our darkness, God navigated it eons before it was dark. And whatever the duration of our nights, God was there long before it ever turned to night. Therefore, despite our frequent feelings to the contrary, there is no place we might be where God was not lovingly waiting for us an eternity before we got there."
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"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."
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"Nothing can dim the light which shines from within."
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"You may shoot me with your words,You may cut me with your eyes,You may kill me with your hatefulness,But still, like air, I'll rise."
Strength

"I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression."
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"Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication."
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"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
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"You can only become great at that thing you're willing to sacrifice for."
Success

"Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life."
Affection

"There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it."
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"Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again."
Liberation
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