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A story is how we construct our experiences.


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We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.



A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.



Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.



If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.



Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.



Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.



What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.



Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.



You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.



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There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.





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We can all live under the Constitution and all express ourself in radically different ways and not control each other.



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