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'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.
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I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
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You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your…
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
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Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and…
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You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or…
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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
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In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
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Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now…
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...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable…
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They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down…
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I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I…
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I can't stand to see myself act. It just makes me cringe.
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I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it because it takes away from what I…
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Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.
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I don't really cringe over any of my albums.
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Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that…
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Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.
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Barry Bonds was like Joe Namath or Muhammad Ali. He could make a statement and go out and back it up. Not…
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