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Self-pity - it's the only pity that counts.
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There is a ripple effect to the gospel that’s inevitable. There’s a ripple effect to true grace. It doesn’t lead us to only sit and contemplate what hap- pened to us. It leads us to proclaim what’s happened to us—and what can happen to anybody and everybody on the planet.
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The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish delights that the egoist locked up in himself as in a box, and the slothful man like a mollusk in his shell, will be eternally deprived of. He adopts as his own all the occupations, all the joys and all the sorrows that chance offers.
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You can't punish a child who is acting out because of sensory overload.
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Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a slave, while Elizabeth offered Mary the loyal, steadfast friendship she craved but had always found so elusive.
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By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.
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My kids and my family are number one; I enjoy them the most.
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Im okay with being unimpressive. I sleep better.
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The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive, and the ability to fantasize is the ability to grow
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Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.