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"Mother said, haven't you seen older boys of your age, that you should take your rotten hands and play with my son's penis? I held my mouth, and i really stiffled a giggle. Now i understood the bloody vexation and the reckless act performed by our housegirl. She was fondling my infant part, and i knew she was horny and lost in the act."

"If you want to be the best you can be, don't judge anyone. Not even yourself."

"I'd sooner have died than admit that the most valuable thing I owned was a fairly extensive collection of German industrial music dance mix EP records stored for even further embarrassment under a box of crumbling Christmas tree ornaments in a Portland, Oregon basement. So I told him I owned nothing of any value."

"If you lack the humility to go back and tie up the loose ends in your past, then be prepared to forever be haunted by her ghosts, all of whom will come into your present and your future- staining everything and everyone with their leftover emotional and mental garbage. Humility is the master key that can get you out of all your cages; why do you choose your ego and stay in your prisons?"

"That wasn't love, that was stupidity."

"In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art."

"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."

"I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes."

"Note to self-give serious thought to becoming an alcoholic."
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"Most of us would benefit greatly from recognizing and accepting the difference between our history and our destiny."

"I used to worry about the labels others placed on me. until I realized my limitations weren't coming from their labels, but from my own."

"Old religious dogma attempts to convince you that you are on a journey to God, then makes you pay tolls along that roadway."

"The batshit kind of love that makes no sense at all. and at the same time. all the sense in the world. That is us. You and me, a "WE."

"I am so grateful for the many times God has shown me the mercy of not giving me what I want."

"Renew, release, let go. Yesterday's gone. There's nothing you can do to bring it back. You can't "should've" done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!"

"To me, Hell isn't a place; it's a state of mind. It is a psychological self-imprisonment in which fear is the warden. It is a result of not living in alignment with your goals, dreams, and purpose. It is to find yourself in the endless emotional agony of, "What if?"
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