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It is possible to thrive in a female body instead of simply waiting for disease to happen. It boils down to this: Regardless of our individual circumstances, our pasts, or our ages, each of us has inner guidance available that we can tune
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“I could wish nothing better for each of you, my dear young friends, than love---the companionship of one dearer than any friend; someone to be deliriously excited over and to be happy with; someone to stir within you the very best that is there; someone to grow more appreciative of, more tender toward, more grateful for, more a part of as one year becomes another and life moves toward eternity. May the Lord answer your prayers with love, the kind that will always express itself in concern not for self but for your beloved companion" ("And the Greatest of these is Love," BYU Devotional, February 14, 1978).”
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“Pain lost its power when other things became more important”
― Elantris
― Elantris

“Can we not appreciate that our very business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves? To break our own records, to outstrip our yesterdays by our todays, to bear our trials more beautifully than we ever dreamed we could, to give as we have never given, to do our work with more force and a finer finish than ever—this is the true idea: to get ahead of ourselves.”
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“Of course, once you had yanked Conan the Barbarian's sword out of a book to fight off a rabid weresquirrel, "impossible" lost a lot of its punch.”
― Libriomancer
― Libriomancer

“The more we narrow the definition of beauty, the more beauty we shut out of our lives.”
― Codex Born
― Codex Born

The official book club of JordanCon! JordanCon is a fantasy literature convention founded in honor of the late author, Robert Jordan. Jordan was the ...more

Welcome to the Goodreads group for Reading Women! “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woma ...more
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