"No mom has it all together. We're all dealing with loose ends when it comes to motherhood and our children. Some of us are just better at keeping up appearances, that's all."

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Source : Julie Ann Barnhill (2011). “Confessions of an Imperfect Mom: God's Path to Less Guilt and More Grace”, p.103, Harvest House Publishers

Julie Ann Barnhill

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“My university education had been a shallow and superficial enterprise. The central driving forces of the economy I lived in were either ignored or left vague, to the point of meaningless.”

Source : "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.
“Industrialized countries have disproportionately more cancers than countries with little or no industry (after adjusting for age and population size). One half of all the world's cancers occur in people living in industrialized countries, even though we are only one-fifth of the world's population. Closely tracking industrialization are breast cancer rates, which are highest in North America and northern Europe, intermediate in southern Europe and Latin America, and lowest in Asia and Africa.”

Source : "Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment". Book by Sandra Steingraber, 1997.
“When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser.”

Source : Mark Fidrych, Tom Clark (1977). “No big deal”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
“When making an axe handle the pattern is not far off.”
“When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.”

Source : William Peter Blatty (2015). “Elsewhere”, p.122, Macmillan
“Karma is the record of services. Karma is the term used in Buddhist teaching. Taoists use the term te. Christians us the term "deed." Many other spiritual beings use the term "virtue." Karma, te, deed, and virtue are the same thing but in different words. To understand karma is to understand all of these words.”
“Stupid word, that. Period. In America it means 'full stop,' like in punctuation. That's stupid as well. A period isn't a full stop. It's a new beginning. I don't mean all that creativity, life-giving force, earth-mother stuff, I mean it's a new beginning to the month, relief that you're not pregnant, when you don't have to have a child.”
“Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we first climb in our mind.”

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