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" Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse. "

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" When America does what's right, it's such a light on this planet. "

" I think the heartbreak of September 11 - America's grief not only over the loss of life but also the loss of our own innocence - has expanded us as people because it has tenderized our hearts. On a psychological level, the American people have matured as a result of that awful day. "

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" Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart. "

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" People don't live in Los Angeles because we are tied to the same old, same old. We live in Los Angeles because of the intoxicating energy of new beginnings that permeate our city. "

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" Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart. "

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" The whole Obama phenomenon brings up memories from my distant past: the good-looking guy who talks real good, whose line you don't buy immediately but whose charm is so dazzling that he gradually convinces you that this time it will be different. "

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" Many people are despairing of the possibility of finding love. And some of the people who are despairing the most are in their thirties and forties and looking just great. "

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" Gay men in a very real way created my career. "

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" An enchanted love, an awakened love, between two people is a blessing on the entire world. "

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" Martin Luther King said it was time to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of human civilization. I don't think anyone is calling Martin Luther King a New Age woo-woo. "

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" I now see that is a woman's God-given role to tend to the home and take care of the children: it's just that the entire planet is our home, and every child on it is one of our children. "

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" Look at Fukushima. Should we or should we not agree with the U.S. government that none of that radioactive energy is making its way here? Hello! "

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" As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way. "

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" The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive. "

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" There's nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it leak, standing firmly within it in mystery and silence. A woman who talks too much sheds her allure. "

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" Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we'll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven that. Colonize. Check. Win our independence. Check. Form a union. Check. Expand to the Pacific. Check. Settle the West. Check. Keep the Union together. Check. Industrialize. Check. Fight the Nazis. Check. "

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" We are material beings for but a moment in time, but we are spiritual beings forever. "

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" With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present. "

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" I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. "

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" I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me. "

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" We have the same soul at 60 that we had at 40, and the same soul at 25 that we had when we were 5. "

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" Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life. "

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" In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart. "

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" As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy. "

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" As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be. "

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" Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in your life. "

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" Unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die. "

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" Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good. "

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" When my sister was diagnosed with cancer in 1989, her doctor told her that the cancer had probably been in her system for 10 years. By the time cancer's diagnosed, it's usually been around for quite a while. "

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" Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen. "

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