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#1

“With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment at the airport when I would stand there waiting for him to arrive, wondering, Will I still know him? Will he still know me?”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

tags: long-distance, relationships

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#2

“The secret to tapping into the supernatural is for you to have the courage to do the natural first.”
― Jentezen Franklin, The Fearless Life: Live Worry-Free No Matter What Happens

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#3

“You live in a world where you can drive through the drive-thru, flop down in a chair to work all day, and spend your evening on the couch, in front of the TV, before you crawl off to your cozy bed. Even if you work hard all day, your day-to-day living can make your body soft. And that softness is a modern-day killer, the equivalent of the savanna-dweller’s lion (actually, the lion was better, since it kept people moving).”
― Cameron Diaz, The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body

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#4

“If you are not in the habit of being active, you are at risk for a number of ailments that would probably not be an issue if you just moved. Moving your body on a daily basis, continually throughout the day, is your body’s instinct because it is essential to its well-being.”
― Cameron Diaz, The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body

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#5

“A better choice is to look for Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacterium, because these guys can survive the intense conditions of your stomach for long enough to do some good.”
― Cameron Diaz, The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body

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#6

“Sweetness was a sign that a plant was edible (most plants that are poisonous to humans taste bitter). Sweetness is also an indication that the plant is high in glucose, which meant that it would offer us lots of energy.”
― Cameron Diaz, The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body

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#7

“When you believe without knowing you believe that you are damaged at your core, you also believe that you need to hide that damage for anyone to love you. You walk around ashamed of being yourself. You try hard to make up for the way you look, walk, feel. Decisions are agonizing because if you, the person who makes the decision, is damaged, then how can you trust what you decide? You doubt your own impulses so you become masterful at looking outside yourself for comfort. You become an expert at finding experts and programs, at striving and trying hard and then harder to change yourself, but this process only reaffirms what you already believe about yourself -- that your needs and choices cannot be trusted, and left to your own devices you are out of control (p.82-83)”
― Geneen Roth, Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

tags: body-image, eating, eating-disorders, health

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#8

“Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection. As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, "Well, that proves once again that I am a nobody." ... [My dark side says,] I am no good... I deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and abandoned. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved." Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen

tags: beloved, christianity, faith, feelings, identity, rejection, self, spiritual-life, spiritual-warfare, success, temptation, truth

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#9

“I don't want anyone who doesn't want me.”
― Oprah Winfrey

tags: rejection

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#10

“Grace is not the absence of the struggle; it is the presence of protection.”
― Sarah Jakes, Lost and Found: Finding Hope in the Detours of Life

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#11

“You will never gain anyone's approval by begging for it. When you stand confident in your own worth, respect follows.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

tags: approval, approval-of-others, begging, confident, loving-yourself, people-pleaser, positive-thinking, respect, respecting-yourself, seeking-approval, self-worth, self-worthiness

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#12

“Praising and encouraging are very close to pushing, and when you do that you are trying again to take control of his life. Think about why you are lauding something he’s done. Is it to help raise his self-esteem? That’s manipulation. Is it so he will continue whatever behavior you’re praising? That’s manipulation. Is it so that he’ll know how proud you are of him? That can be a burden for him to carry. Let him develop his own pride from his own accomplishments.”
― Robin Norwood, Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Change

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#13

“Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: anticipation, award, charity, collateral, collateral-damage, compassion, credit, empathy, expectations, expectations-return, gift, give, glory, good-hearted, good-will, heart, insincerity, kind, love, money, nice, pity, praise, present, pride, recognition, return, reward, selfishness, selflessness, sincerity, sympathy

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#14

“For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

tags: free-will, god, john, judas

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#15

“The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

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#16

“We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

tags: god

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#17

“Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

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#18

“God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of want or lack; it is caused by a real or supposed goal in its beloved which the lover needs and desires. But God's love, far from being caused by goodness in the object, causes all the goodness which the object has, loving it first into existence, and then into real, though derivative, lovability. God is Goodness. He can give good, but cannot need or get it. In that sense , His love is, as it were, bottomlessly selfless by very definition; it has everything to give, and nothing to receive.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

tags: glory-of-god, love

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#19

“When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: apathy, bore, bored, boredom, dissatisfaction, dreariness, dullness, education, employ, employed, employee, employees, employer, employers, employment, ennui, flatness, friday, frustration, humor, humour, interesting, job, joke, lassitude-tedium, lethargy, monotony, repetitiveness, restiveness, restlessness, satire, saturday, school, seven, sunday, unconcern, unemployed, unemployment, uninteresting, weariness, week, weekday, weekdays, weekend, weekends, weeks, work

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