Thrity Umrigar Quotes

It was strange how she found out, One moment she didn't know; the next minute she did. One moment her mind was as blank as the desert; the next minute the snake of suspicion had slithered into her thoughts and raised its poisonous head.

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Mithai teach me big lesson-it easier to love someone if you can make them happy.

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And so I have to live. Because we live for more than just ourselves, Most of the time we live for others, keep putting one foot before the other, left and right, left and right, so that walking becomes a habit, just like breathing. Ina n out, left and right.

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Think of how far you've come," Maggie said softly. "And then ask yourself how much farther you wish to go

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Ma wrong about one thing. When I was girl, she only talk about love in the marriage. [...] Nobody tell me what make real marriage-respect.

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And a mother without children is not a mother at all, and if I am not a mother, than I am nothing. Nothing. I am like sugar dissolved in a glass of water. Or, I am like salt, which disappears when you cook with it. I am salt. Without my children, I cease to exist.

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Why worry, if today be sweet'?

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but her mind feels feverish as it races through the crowded hallways of the past

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