Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
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If people would treat themselves with the same kind of love they give to their friends, that would be such a great… — Cindy Crawford Copy Share Image
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Nature has provided two great gifts: life and then the diversity of living things, jellyfish and humans, worms and crocodiles. I don't… — Theodore Holmes Bullock Copy Share Image
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psychological growth is the great gift and inexorable fact of human life. — Jean Baker Miller Copy Share Image
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I know that great gifts come at a price, and that not all talent inspires admiration. — Sally O'Reilly Copy Share Image
If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
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