The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

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For some people, she thought, trials were only temporary; they sailed towards happiness through the roughest weather. ― Emma Donoghue

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When children attend schools that place a greater value in discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prisons. — Angela Davis

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Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing. — Linda Hogan

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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. – Zora Neale Hurston

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The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain. And when you feel the pain and go beyond it, you'll see there's a very intense love that is wanting to awaken itself. — Deepak Chopra

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Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you. — Rumi

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The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary – Vidal Sassoon

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Sometimes, when you least expect it, you'll realize that someone loved you. And that means that someone can love you again! And that will make you smile. —Homer Simpson

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The first place we lose the battle is in our own thinking. If you think it is permanent then it's permanent. If you think you've reached your limits then you have. If you think you will never get well then you won't. You have to change your thinking. You need to see everything that's holding you back, every obstacle, every limitation as only temporary. Joel Osteen

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