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The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present,…
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Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for…
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Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being.
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I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow. Like the…
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This world is painted on a wild dark metal
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There's an elegiac quality in watching [American wilderness] go, because it's our own myth, the American frontier, that's deteriorating before our eyes.…
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My eye is fixed not on the ending of the book but on the feeling of that ending.
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Where to begin? Do we measure the relaxing of the feet? The moment when the eye glimpses the hawk, when instinct functions?…
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The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension, and once…
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I have never figured out how women work but I do know that their skin color has no significance. Black or white,…
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Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted…
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Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about…
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I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . .…
— Frances Harper
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Having women work with men is like having a grizzly bear work with salmon . . . dipped in honey.
— Patrice O'Neal
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I have never figured out how women work but I do know that their skin color has no significance. Black or white,…
— Peter Matthiessen
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No marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers,…
— Sheri L. Dew
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It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs…
— Hortense Odlum
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When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.
— Victoria Principal
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My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't…
— Sheryl Sandberg
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Women work as much as men now, if not more. There's a resurgence of dads in the home and moms working.
— Morena Baccarin
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The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But…
— Frances O'Grady
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Women work harder. And women are more honest; they have less reasons to be corrupt.
— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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Black women . . . work because their husbands can't make enough money at their jobs to keep everything going. . .…
— Wilma Rudolph
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It is nature's law that rivers wind, trees grow wood, and, given the opportunity, women work iniquity
— Unknown Author
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