"Do you mind even a little that you are still addicted to people-pleasing, and are still putting everyone elseâ€™s needs and laundry and career ahead of your creative, spiritual life? Giving all your life force away, to â€œhelpâ€ and impress. Well, your help is not helpful, and falls short."

-- Anne Lamott

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“What coward would not fight when he is sure of victory?”
“I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.”
“Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Ray Stevenson Plans to Pummel You with Punisher: War Zone: The DVD!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. March 16, 2009.
“True zeal is connected with a holy life. It is remarkable how often the greatest zealots for God, the Church, and sound doctrine (as they regard it), have been unholy and even immoral in their lives.”
“Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect?”
“I needed to sit down. I'd heard other people talk about having to sit down when shocked by an event or revelation and I had dismissed the notion as pure exaggeration. Little did I realize the actual physical weakness. It felt as if my bones had dissolved and my muscles could no longer support my weight.”
“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”

Source : Elizabeth Strout (2013). “Abide With Me”, p.209, Simon and Schuster
“Try to secure advantages before attacking. If possible, keep the sun behind you.”

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