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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Air Fire Islands
Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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Abiding Medicine Soul
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Possession Priceless Soul
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Borders Pulse Travel
Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Absence Doctrine Tradition
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Belief Faith Understanding
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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Children Goodness Responsibility
[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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Belief Believe Music
Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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Hands Home Regret
All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Creativity Ideas Success
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Danger Pitfalls Way
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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All Lows Rome Things
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Prayer Sometimes Thinking
Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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Care Sports Water
Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Appetite Satisfaction Sex
Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Imagination Kindness Pitfalls