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All parents set out with expectations, hopes and dreams for their child. When a child is diagnosed with a health problem, these aspirations are altered. While one parent is hoping to see their child graduate from university, another is praying that they can live pain free


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SHARON STONE Chanting is a simple practice. When you notice you are thinking about something else during the chan...
SHARON SALZBERG The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing the...
SHARON SALZBERG I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. ...
SHARON TATE I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would ma...
ARIEL SHARON What I've learned from my visit here is that the plan -- disengagement plan -- contributes to the se...
ARIEL SHARON The United States was surprised to hear that Israel was allegedly planning to modify the (road map) ...
ARIEL SHARON The handling of the problem of the Egyptian border with the Gaza Strip is a very delicate and compli...
ARIEL SHARON We attach vast importance to Egyptian activity in the Gaza Strip and along the border, but I don't i...
ARIEL SHARON It is an old project launched by Ariel Sharon when he was housing minister nearly 15 years ago,
ARIEL SHARON The terrorist attack was perpetrated by members of Islamic Jihad,
ARIEL SHARON Palestinians who have reached a conclusion that, with terror, they can't achieve anything. And the w...
ARIEL SHARON Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewi...
ARIEL SHARON By now we're over 60 percent out... The number of infiltrators has been halved,
ARIEL SHARON I've never been willing to lie about my age. Why on earth would I want to tell people I'm 35...
SHARON STONE Sexiness is all in the eye of the beholder. I think it should be. Absolutely. My sex appeal, whateve...
SHARON TATE I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved ...
SHARON STONE I think the associations people have with kindness are often things like meekness and sweetness and ...
SHARON SALZBERG As for meat, I'm not going to become vegetarian. I'm telling you that right now. I want me a...
SHARON JONES The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Je...
ARIEL SHARON Our names are an integral part of the faces we show to the world. If we're judged first on outwa...
SHARON BOLTON As women, we understand our bodies, and there's a blossoming that occurs. We're hungry for g...
SHARON STONE Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirati...
SHARON SALZBERG The power of a person derives not from the office he occupies but from a clear sense of direction an...
ARIEL SHARON We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.
SHARON TATE Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some ki...
SHARON SALZBERG Arafat is the greatest obstacle to peace and stability in the Middle East.
ARIEL SHARON Arafat is hosting, training, supporting, sponsoring terrorist organizations.
ARIEL SHARON