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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

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I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.

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It's true. I can do anything and do it well because God loves me. It still humbles me.

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You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

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Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.

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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

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Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself. You must love yourself first, of course, and you must protect yourself so that nobody overrides you, overrules you, or steps on you. Just say, 'Just a minute. I'm worth everything, dear.'

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Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right.

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It may in fact be utterly impossible to be successful without helping others to become successful.

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A Woman in Harmony with her Spirit is like a river flowing.

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You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

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Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.

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Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

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I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

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I do not need to know all things. I remind myself that it is sufficient that I know what I know and know that without believing that I will always know what I know or that what I know will always be true.

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To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.

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When I love somebody, I like him to be around; I like him to take me out to dinner; I like to look at the sunset with him. But if not, I love him and I hope he's looking at the same sun I am. Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age. Some of this wisdom came to me after I was 50 or 60.

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Anger is like fire. It burns all clean.

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Growing up at my grandmother's table, she always had rice. She might do something as exotic as potatoes or spaghetti, but there was still always rice, just in case you needed a little rice fix.

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When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

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