Quote by Anna Quindlen
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. – Anna Quindlen

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Children should have enough freedom to be themselves – once theyve learned the rules. – Anna Quindlen

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Freedom
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I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. – Anna Quindlen

Category:
Change
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The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But youd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools. – Anna Quindlen

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Future
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Self-Discovery
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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. – George Moore

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Self-Discovery

There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it. – Elizabeth A. Behnke

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Self-Discovery

We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses — secret senses, sixth senses, if you will — equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded. – Oliver Sacks

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Self-Discovery

There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Self-Discovery

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Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient? – Marcel Proust

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Mental Illness

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme. – Sherwood Boehlert

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environmental

For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper. – Jim Costa

Category:
relationship

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Beauty