"Write down what you feel guilty about. Now, with the biggest, reddest marker you can find, cross it out-delete it."

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Source : Sue Patton Thoele (2002). “The Woman's Book of Confidence: Meditations for Strength and Inspiration”, p.7, Conari Press

Sue Thoele

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“I'd like a stocking made for a giant, And a meeting house full of toys, Then I'd go out in a happy hunt For the poor little girls and boys; Up the street and down the street, And across and over the town, I'd search and find them everyone, Before the sun went down.”

Source : Eugene Field (1901). “A Little Book of Tribune Verse: A Number of Hitherto Uncollected Poems, Grave and Gay”
“I think through living one's life, one both changes and remains the same. One can see it either way, one can see oneself as being now what one was and one can see oneself as being absolutely different from what one was. It's a trick of thought.”

Source : "New Again: Jasper Johns". Interview with Philip Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 9, 2015.
“First and foremost, I'm a running back. That's how I perceive myself.”
“Sharon Osbourne is such a blast and she's so, so bright.”
“The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.”
“I believe nakedness shouldn't be kept in the dark.”
“I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so little; one imagines, in spite of oneself, that sooner or later something is bound to happen. A big mistake. A life can just as well be both empty and short. The days slip by indifferently, leaving neither trace nor memory; and then all of a sudden they stop.”

Source : Michel Houellebecq (2011). “Whatever: A Novel”, p.46, Profile Books
“With the Ethical Rules and a little concentration, anything is possible.”

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