"Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it."

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Source : Mary Balogh (2006). “Simply Love”, p.140, Delacorte Press

Mary Balogh

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“Look at all of the great strengths of America: entrepreneurialship, work ethic, natural resources, a democracy, a transparency, a willingness to be critical. Around the world, they look at us, and they say, "Why are you criticizing yourself? Why are you people arguing during the political process to elect a president or somebody else?" That's the great strength of this country.”
“No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.”
“I'm a regular at a hospital in Pennsylvania. The Riddle Hospital in Media, Pennsylvania.”

Source : "The Stars of Jackass 3D On God, Cancer, and Homosexuality". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.vanityfair.com. October 14, 2010.
“Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.”
“We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.”
“People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power”
“We never live so intensely as when we love strongly. We never realize ourselves so vividly as when we are in full glow of love for others.”
“Say what you want before the fight but when it's done, you accept the result.”

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