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- It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what's keeping things…
- Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That's why it's such a…
- You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from…
- Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy…
- Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.
- Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.…
- The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
- When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering…
- Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way,…
- My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me…
- You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and…
- Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I come into contast…
- Little by little, in telling Sam all these details, I got to see the bigger point of baseball, that it can give us back ourselves.…
- I'm all over the place, up and down, scattered, withdrawing, trying to find some elusive sense of serenity." The world can't give that serenity. The…
- The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours; it’s what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness; if…
- I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published…
- A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God…
- I pray not to be such a whiny, self-obsessed baby, and give thanks that I am not quite as bad as I used to be…
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