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It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

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This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.

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He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.

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When I was asked to do something good, I often say yes, I'll try, yes, I'll do my best. And part of that is believing, if God loves me, if God made everything from leaves to seals and oak trees, then what is it I can't do?

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I have heard it said that winter, too, will pass, that spring is a sign that summer is due at last. See, all we have to do is hang on.

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Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.

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When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.

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If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.

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The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

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Whining is just unbecoming.

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Success is loving life and daring to live it.

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Live as though life was created for you.

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Tell the truth and not the facts.

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If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you will look forward, do so prayerfully. But the wisest course would be to be present in the present gratefully.

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When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'

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What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. Okay. I’ll come.

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A mother's love liberates.

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Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

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Then the question began to live under my blankets: How did lesbianism begin? What were the symptoms? The public library gave information on the finished lesbian--and that woefully sketchy--but on the growth of a lesbian, there was nothing. I did discover that the difference between hermaphrodites and lesbians was that hermaphrodites were "born that way." It was impossible to determine whether lesbians budded gradually, or burst into being with a suddenness that dismayed them as much as it repelled society.

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Look for the beauty in things.

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