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The thing about having a baby is that thereafter, you have it.

- Jean Kerr

What a shock! Our children do not always fit into our fantasies. They do not always provide us with the "perfect little family." They do not always fit in with our schemes and plans. And the worst thing about them is that we cannot get them shaped up the way
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I used to come home....quickly swoop him up, and while nuzzling his fur and rubbing his belly say "You're the only man for me JuJu". He would smile from ear to ear and jump around wagging his tail as soon as his feet hit the ground. He was quite voluptuous and I used to tell him I wasn't the only model in the house, as...
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This blog is a little late...but I felt it was worth going back

You can get lonesome - being that busy.

- Isabel Lennart

Workaholics are lonely people. Our work is like a jealous lover. It demands more and more of us. We see ourselves becoming progressively isolated from those who are important to us. We schedule lunches two weeks in advance so that we...
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Toxic ideas-about "a woman's place"; about father knowing best. About the doctor always being right. About drugs and surgery being your only medical options. As you can see, these, if used unneccessarily, can be very dangerous to a person's physical and emotional health.

- Christine Northrup

How much time are we willing to give to our physical and emotional health? Often, we expect our bodies...
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We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.

- Camille Paglia

We livein a world of victims. Modern psychology is
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Miss Olivia Black Suicide

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventure whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

- Rebecca West

One of the side effects of doing too much is developing monotone minds. We spend so much time in our work and work related activities that our awareness and our perceptions become narrower and narrower. We reach a point where we can't talk about anything but...
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The clouds gathered together, stood still and watched the river scuttle around the forrest floor, crash headlong into haunches of hills with no notion of where it was going, until exhausted, ill and grieving, it slowed to a stop just twenty leagues short of the sea.

- Toni Morrison

My, can that woman write! I read a passage like the one above, and I just...
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Don't be afraid your life will end: be afraid that it will never begin.

- Grace Hansen

So often our focus upon death and the possibility of dying is an escape from our real fear....that of living our lives. We have become comfortable with a way of life that is actually a slow death. Our constant working, busyness, taking care of others, and rushing around
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