Marianne Williamson Quotes
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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It takes less land to grow a pound of broccoli than it does a pound of beef. Less land to grow a pound of grain than a pound of beef. Less water, less energy.
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It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.
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I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.
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I have no idea what that is, but yawn, anyway, just on principle. Eat up. Pancakes is brain food. Apparently not grammar food. Wow.You college girls are mean.
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And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.
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If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.
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Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.
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We're always looking for something.
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There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.
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The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.
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He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.
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I'd think,'In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.' Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldn't be married if your that kind of person.
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It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.
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Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.
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He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.
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We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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Portland has influenced me in that it is very much where I feel most "at home" in the world. I grew up there. My family is there, my closest friends are there; my favorite bookstore, record store and coffee joint are there. Portland changed a lot during the eight years I lived in Bellingham but, every time I went back, it always felt like home.
