"I'm giving [my analyst] one more year--then I'm going to Lourdes."
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"God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me."
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"What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others."
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"If you don't have a passion, you'll give up."
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"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."
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"Understand that the only way to get happiness is by giving it away to others."
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"I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)"
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"Let bygones be bygones...but where I'm from, We buy guns and more guns, to give to the young."
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"When you are good to others, you are best to yourself."
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"I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure."
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"The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls."
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"When life gives you lemons, throw them at the zombies."
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"Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?"
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"Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief."
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"I pray to give thanks and to recognize all the good things that are in my life even during times of great change, confusion, or frustration."
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"Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd."
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"It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance."
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"Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. Be like the Tao. It can't be approached or withdrawn from, benefited or harmed, honored or brought into disgrace. It gives itself up continually. That is why it endures."
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"Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery."
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"I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured."
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