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In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn and grow.


Iyanla Vanzant

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AND CITY Desperate Housewives.
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AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
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AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana.
JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight,
JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent,
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GARY GAMBARDELLA It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.
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"If we're ever going to get out of here alive, we...
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SHANNON CELEBI Hope is the assurance of positive expectations.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Instead of a fiance’ and a wife, Hopkins gets a warden and a parole officer.
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JULIE ROSS No matter what sin you find yourself in, turn to God. Let Him forgive, heal, and restore.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Hope is the believe that the promised will be fulfilled.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
GEORGE ORWELL Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.
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BOBONTLE MOPELOA God created the institution of marriage for mutual happiness and pleasure
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Im for rules but when rules conflicts humanity i will stand against it at all cost
MICHAEL STRONG Truth is the mirror that reflects our errors and brings them to the light
MICHAEL STRONG Wisdom is a gift.The mind is its home
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GARRY FITCHETT Anything that you dont overcome will eventualy overtake you.
MICHAEL STRONG Mistakes unviels our individual flaws that blocks our paths to perfection
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MICHAEL STRONG When a man endures suffering he endures something greater than himself
MICHAEL STRONG Its human to error no one is immune to it
MICHAEL STRONG Taking Mr. Durkin off the steets puts a Grand Canyon-sized hole in the local drug business.
GARY GAMBARDELLA Man does not live in isolation, we depend upon each other.
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WERLEY NORTREUS It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
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KEVIN ABDULRAHMAN I know, for example, that Mr. Petersen did not experience the flow of time in the same way that I di...
GAVIN EXTENCE Are you chuckling yet? Because then along came you. A big, broad meat eater with brash blond hair an...
LIONEL SHRIVER It is well to believe that there needs but a little more thought, a little more courage, more love, ...
MAURICE MAETERLINCK If a person gives nothing of what he has, either take nothing or take everything. If a person serves...
APURVA GAGLANI Books! And cleverness! There are more important things-friendship and bravery and-oh Harry-be carefu...
J.K. ROWLING You're going to make it;
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LAILAH GIFTY AKITA [THE DAILY BREATH]

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DRAGOS BRATASANU You have the power within your reach to create what you desire.
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