You have to learn to accept your body. You have to learn to like what you see in the mirror. There are definitely times when I don't feel like myself, but you have to fake it until you make it.

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God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.

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You can always tell a real friend: When you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job. — Laurence J. Peter

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Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

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I think honesty is the ultimate liberation in life. People want to shy away from the truth and keep sweeping it under the rug. But after a while, you pick up the rug and there's just way too much dirt, so you might as well just be up front about it.

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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

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Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street. - Cornel West

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Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us.

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Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

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If you really want to be happy, don't just go for the money. Go for the relationship that lasts. Go for things of greater value. ― Tony Meloto

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