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Sue Bender
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“It's the everyday things that give life its stability and its framework.”
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“Listening to your heart is not simple. Finding out who you are is not simple. It takes a lot of hard work and courage to get to know who you are and what you want.”
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“The patches [of the quilt], placed next to each other formed a unity — a design for a life. ... The world still comes to me in fragments, but I see now that the fragments themselves are not the enemy. If the pattern is strong enough, they will form a whole. It was a fragmented life that I didn't want.”
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“I am not wise. Not knowing, and learning to be comfortable with not knowing, is a great discovery.”
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“Miracles come after a lot of hard work.”
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“The only mistake is to not learn from a mistake.”
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“We all know more than we think we know.”
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“Perhaps our natural gifts elude us because they are so obvious.”
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“That which we withhold is withheld from us; that which we give is given back to us a thousandfold.”
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“Being empty is a beginning.”
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“Making a choice — declaring what is essential — creates a framework for life that eliminates many choices but gives meaning to the things that remain.”
Sue Bender, U.S. writer
(1933)