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"I … have to constantly balance "being a writer" with being a wife and mother. It's a matter of putting two different things first, simultaneously." Madeleine L'Engle

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It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.

--Professor Dumbledore to Harry in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," by J.K. Rowling

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"What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility". Leo Tolstoy - writer / philosopher 1828-1910

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Watch your 'Thoughts,' they become words. Watch your 'Words,' they become actions. Watch your 'Actions,' they become habits. Watch your 'Habits,' they become character. Watch your 'Character,' for it becomes your Destiny.'

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"Once we realize -- no matter what we attempt in life -- the 'worst' we can do is learn from that experience, then the whole idea of 'failure' fades from view and, in its place, freedom appears." --Guy Finley

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Belief in a cruel god creates a cruel man. ~Thomas Paine

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"Be what you are and do what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." ~~ Dr. Suess

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"Far away, there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." ~~ Louisa May Alcott

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"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." - - Albert Einstein

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"In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock." ~~ Thomas Jefferson

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Life is not measured by how many breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers." ~~ Maya Angelou

"Fashion is made to become unfashionable."
Coco Chanel

A thought

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO what a ride!'