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“I was fuzzy on the details, but I knew the basic outline. I knew how I wanted to be, it was simply a question of being who I wanted to be.I thought I had had it all figured out before. I'd had the plan perfectly clear in my head. I wasn't going to cross into thirty without the triple crown in hand: serious boyfriend, career, and great friends..It was time to accept that maybe, just maybe, I didn't have to have it all figured out by the time I turned thirty. Maybe I could just work on me, and see what else fell into place.I was pretty sure that was otherwise known as living.”
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“My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as wee one.”
Source : "Natascha McElhone: my family values" by Victoria Lambert, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.
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“I’m trying to tell people that I am happy the way I am. But why do people have to call my happiness a failure?”
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“What scares me is not living up to be a good enough father to my son and letting down my family - not being there enough and not being able to give enough of yourself.”
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“Spiritual Partnership ... The new female and the new male are partners on a journey of spiritual growth. They want to make the journey. Their love and trust keep them together. Their intuition guides them. They consult with each other. They are friends. They laugh a lot. They are equals. That is what a spiritual partnership is: a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth.”
Source : Gary Zukav, Linda Francis (2012). “Soul Stories”, p.145, Simon and Schuster
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“Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.”
Source : "Trading cards profile a geek a week for an entire year" by Ann Hoevel, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2010.
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“I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'”
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“Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.”
Source : FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 25, 2012