Sharon Salzberg quote: "You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world.
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From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if w...
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Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seei...
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In a single moment we can understand we are not just facing a knee pain, or our discouragement and o...
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The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
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Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we do...
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It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a dar...
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You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection
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Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.
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I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrende...
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Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold...
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Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowled...
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We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those co...
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Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state...
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Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help y...
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We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewi...
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Chanting is a simple practice. When you notice you are thinking about something else during the chan...
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The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing the...
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I think the associations people have with kindness are often things like meekness and sweetness and ...
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Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirati...
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Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some ki...
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We apply our effort to be mindful, to be aware in this very moment, right here and now, and we bring...
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If we are nothing, there is nothing at all to serve as a barrier to our boundless expression of love...
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With a clear intention and a willing spirit, sooner or later we experience the joy and freedom that ...
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If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, iso...
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As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgment, we are d...
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Love and compassion don't at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and visi...
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We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
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Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we do...
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If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intent...
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Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.
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By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more lik...
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Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere ...
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Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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We like things to manifest right away, and they may not. Many times, we're just planting a seed ...
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When you're wide open, the world is a good place.
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We live in this world of great promise, where everything seems to offer an unchanging final happines...
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It's difficult to admit to ourselves that we suffer. We feel humiliated, like we should have bee...
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It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves pri...
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We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something ...
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I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation p...
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We can't give the truth to someone as an object, we can only point to it, inviting inspection. I...
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When we see the relatedness of ourselves to the universe, that we do not live as isolated entities, ...
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The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled ...
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Mindfulness helps us see the addictive aspect of self-criticism— a repetitive cycle of flaying our...
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Without equanimity, we might give love to others only in an effort to bridge the inevitable and heal...
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Equanimity can be hard to talk about.
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Sometimes people in abusive situations think they’re responsible for the other person’s happines...
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Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn't sentimental. It doesn't have to be pretty, yet it doesn't ...
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The meditation traditions I started and have continued practicing have all emphasized inclusivity: a...
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Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not on...
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We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant on...
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Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
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There is a sentiment common among most of us when it comes to love—letting go can feel scary.
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To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice crue...
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The skills available to us through mindfulness make it possible to bring love to our connections wit...
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Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people ...
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Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories ...
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How we traverse the space between us when conflict arises has a profound effect on the health and lo...
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Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.
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We’re in charge of our own forgiveness, and the process takes time, patience, and intention.
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It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tel...
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Compassion has more to do with the attitude we bring to our encounters with other people than with a...
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Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can’t be rushed or engineered.
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We nurture our sense of connection with the larger whole, noticing that the whole is only as healthy...
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As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another...
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As human beings, we’re capable of greatness of spirit, an ability to go beyond the circumstances w...
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My ideal registration system would be an opt-out one, where every single person is registered once t...
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Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It&...
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My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.
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Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.
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Forgiveness can be bittersweet. It contains the sweetness of the release of a story that has caused ...
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Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.
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We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
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Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
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Sanskrit has different words to describe love for a brother or sister, love for a teacher, love for ...
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The first step toward feeling compassion for others is to set the intention to try it out.
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It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people ...
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Whether we fear the existence of boundaries with others or crave more of them, there’s no denying ...
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There’s no denying that it takes effort to set the intention to see our fundamental connected-ness...
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What happens in our hearts is our field of freedom. As long as we carry old wounds and anger in our ...
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Healing comes in many ways, and no one formula fits all.
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There are an incalculable—even infinite—number of situations in which we can practice forgivenes...
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Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of fo...
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We cannot instantaneously force ourselves to forgive—and forgiveness happens at a different pace f...
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Forgiveness is a process, an admittedly difficult one that often can feel like a rigorous spiritual ...
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The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with o...
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The paradigm for our relationships is formed from our earliest experiences and is actually hardwired...
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To celebrate someone else’s life, we need to find a way to look at it straight on, not from above ...
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By experimenting with sympathetic joy, we break from the constricted world of individual struggle an...
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The more we identify and acknowledge moments when we’re unable to share in someone else’s pleasu...
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Laughing at your pettiness probably works better than scolding yourself for it.
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Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be h...
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These are times when sympathetic joy comes naturally, but in a complex relationship the heart may no...
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Our can-do culture has made many of us believe that we should always be self-sufficient. Somewhere a...
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We learn from conflicts only when we are willing to do so.
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In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation.
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Letting go of the belief that we’re powerless to help relieve our own suffering enhances our abili...
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The heart is a generous muscle.
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Sometimes we think that to develop an open heart, to be truly loving and compassionate, means that w...
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There's no commodity we can take with us. There is only our lives, whether we live them wisely o...
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The moment that we realize our attention has wandered is the magic moment of the practice, because t...
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Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illumi...
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We need to redefine community and find a variety of ways of coming together and helping each other.
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Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness wi...
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In our usual mind state, we are continually activating the process that in Buddhist terminology is k...
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Even on the spiritual path, we have things we'll tend to cover up or be in denial about.
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We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of u...
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When we respond to our pain and suffering with love, understanding, and acceptance—for ourselves, ...
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Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings.
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With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations a...
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Genuine awe connects us with the world in a new way.
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When we constantly hear that we should be smarter, better connected, more productive, wealthier—it...
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It takes a special courage to challenge the rigid confines of our accustomed story. It’s not easy ...
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We truly can reconfigure how we see ourselves and reclaim the love for ourselves that we’re innate...
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Although love is often depicted as starry-eyed and sweet, love for the self is made of tougher stuff...
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Cultivating loving kindness for ourselves is the foundation of real love for our friends and family,...
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What makes awe such a powerful call to love is that it’s disruptive. It sneaks up on us. It doesn�...
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Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection...
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Sympathetic joy is a practice. It takes time and effort to free ourselves of the scarcity story that...
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As we explore new ways of thinking, we need to be willing to investigate, experiment, take some risk...
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When we pay attention to sensations in our bodies, we can feel that love is the energetic opposite o...
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Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own...
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As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make
friends wit...
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Mindfulness won’t ensure you’ll win an argument with your sister. Mindfulness won’t enable you...
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Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world. Practicin...
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The journey to loving ourselves doesn’t mean we like everything.
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Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to...
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No matter what we think we should do, I don’t think you can coerce yourself into loving your neigh...
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The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
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When we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they h...
SHARON SALZBERG

I'm very unpredictable. Very, very impulsive. Extremely. Absolutely! Sometimes I don't know ...
SHARON TATE

Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are abo...
SHARON GLESS

'Bridget Jones' is meant to be a funny night out, but with emotional truth. I wanted to make...
SHARON MAGUIRE

But I've always believed that Christine Cagney shouldn't be played past a certain age.
SHARON GLESS

Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have thing...
SHARON GLESS

Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you...
SHARON GLESS

We've got 400,000 girls with beach-y blonde hair, the same nose, gigantic lips, implants in thei...
SHARON STONE

If someone loves you, they should not be envious of you pouring your heart and soul and time and ene...
SHARON SWAN

Pleasure feels better than pain. Make the pursuit of pleasure your guide.
SHARON WEIL

Patience is not waiting; it is a quality of waiting.
SHARON WEIL

We are supposed to write the truth, for no one to see but ourselves. But how easily that truth can b...
SHARON CAMERON

It's my choice today that is the memory of tomorrow. It's my choice that determines what I will beco...
SHARON CAMERON

We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.
SHARON STONE

If you have a vagina and an attitude in this town, then that's a lethal combination.
SHARON STONE

The moment you say 'I know everything' is the end of your growth.
SHARON LEE

Basically I am interrested in friendship, sex, and death.
SHARON RIIS

So do I wish I was to be king? That is not a question I ask myself. I ask myself, Would I be a good ...
SHARON SHINN

Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant str...
SHARON GOLD

I think I am aging, but I'm enjoying the process.
SHARON STONE

I've had the same breasts for my entire adult life.
SHARON STONE

I think, for a long time, people just did not know what to do with me. I looked like a Barbie doll, ...
SHARON STONE

There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.
SHARON GLESS

Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's th...
SHARON DRAPER

Technology has already opened the door a bit wider for filmmakers, with smaller digital cameras maki...
SHARON LAWRENCE

The government, under my leadership, will act to implement the rule of law and to maintain the indep...
ARIEL SHARON

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't ...
SHARON STONE

I do research for every single book, regardless. For 'Double Dutch,' I learned to jump and l...
SHARON DRAPER

I worked at Sears as a salesperson when I was in college. Makes me nicer to folks to have to stand a...
SHARON DRAPER

With the 'Hazelwood High' trilogy, I wasn't sure I was writing a trilogy. I would just w...
SHARON DRAPER

I believe I'm a better writer now than I was when I started. I'm grateful that I had good gu...
SHARON DRAPER

Girls read a boy book, but boys don't necessarily want to read a girl book.
SHARON DRAPER

I start with an idea or a problem or a conflict, or even a situation that might be pertinent to the ...
SHARON DRAPER

I'd love to dance with grace and style, to move as easily as I write.
SHARON DRAPER

A good book ought to bring out lots of different responses from those that read it - none of them pr...
SHARON DRAPER

Writing, for me, is a very fluid process. I sit down and wait for the words to come. They usually do...
SHARON DRAPER

I try to give a voice to teens, who might be afraid to speak up about difficult issues, and a platfo...
SHARON DRAPER

When students ask me today, 'What do you think we should learn from this book?' I tell them,...
SHARON DRAPER

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop...
SHARON DRAPER

I chose not to put a wig on. The reason why I chose to come out with the cancer thing is because the...
SHARON JONES

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I wa...
SHARON STONE

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
SHARON BEGLEY

Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cu...
SHARON STONE

The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, gua...
ARIEL SHARON

And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christ...
SHARON GLESS

But it took me awhile to figure out Christine at this age, you know.
SHARON GLESS

The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't hav...
SHARON GLESS

At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claus...
SHARON STONE

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

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

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

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

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

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You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

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