The woman was sane; she ...

The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.
The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.
 Joanne Greenberg

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Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
The by-product is that they more people you help, the "richer" you become, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and definitely financially.
 T. Harv Eker
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

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What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?
 Joanne Greenberg
suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.
 Joanne Greenberg
And if I fight, then for what?""For nothing easy or sweet, and I told you that last year and the year before that. For your own challenge, for your own mistakes and the punishment for them, for your own definition of love and of sanity - a good strong self with which to begin to live.
 Joanne Greenberg
If I want to die, what am I saving myself for?
 Joanne Greenberg