oliviablack

I am never early or on time, but at least I arrive. When I noticed this @suicidegirls homework....I had to drop everything and get my @missy and @charmaine post done!!!!!! <3

One would never know it now, but I used to hate reading!

I have this 'horrible' (I have since realized the error of my ways) memory of a childhood Christmas. My parents divorced when...
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-Leonor Fini

Our creativity, once unleashed, knows no time or space. It is like a passionate lover that demands to be heard. No wonder we are so afraid of it. It can turn our world topsy-turvy. And maybe our worlds need to be turned topsy-turvy.

When our creativity...
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The story of love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

-Helen Hayes

All too often, we women who do too much confuse "Falling in love" with loving. We like that"buzz," the intensity of the adrenaline rush of falling in love. It's exciting and "relieves us from the pressure...
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-Hannah Whitall Smith

Actually, we probably should never give advice, even when someone asks for it. However, it is often helpful to give information and then let it go. Too often we...
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Is not true that life is what damn thing after another...

it's the same damn thing over and over again

-Edna St. Vincent Millay

Our inner process gives us every opportunity to learn what we need to learn. Our inner being is very conservative-minded-it continues to recycle our stuff, and recycle our stuff, and recycle our stuff. If we don't get the lesson the first...
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Action

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge and how.

-Toni Morrison

They're often events in our lives that just do not make sense. In spite of our best efforts, projects fail. It is important to take stock of the situation and except our part and the failure and then move on. When...
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Crisis Orientation

The physician says I have a "Nervous Prostration"

Possibly I have - I do not know the names of sickness. The crisis

of the sorrow of so many years is all that tires me.

-Emily Dickinson

Physicians have invented many erudite and confounding names for women who work themselves into a complete frazzle. We spend our lives moving from one crisis to another....
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Fixers and Fixees

Once again I was brought to my knees as I learned that each of us must access inner wisdome for herself. I can point out the road map, perhaps, but I must completely let go of the outcome.

-Christine Northrup

We live in a society of 'experts' and people looking for experts. Unfortunately, the two groups fit together quite nicely. Also, unfortunately,...
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Guilt

Who I am is what I have to give. Quite simply, I must remember that's enough.

-Anne Wilson Schaef

Often, when we look in our inner recesses, we feel that we are lacking. We have been a disappointment to others. We couldn't "be there"when we should have been, and we didn't have all the information we should have had. Somehow, though it may be...
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.

-Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Ideas can be so seductive, and we are so easily seduced. We forget that ideas are just that, abstractions that have been thought up.

We often lose ourselves in ideas and become so caught up in them we cannot distinguish between ourselves and the idea. When we reach this level of enmeshment...
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I have spent the last few years of my life rebuilding. I have rebuilt due to many a situation, and it seems I am still rebuilding.

I am quite the candid person about my past...even the idea of my future; but, if you need me to be open about my present...we are both going to be in pain.

I have made many a goal to...
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