Lionel Fisher Quotes

#1. People who need people are threatened by people who don't. The idea of seeking contentment alone is heretical, for society steadfastly decrees that our completeness lies in others.

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#2. Meanwhile, I find comfort in my faith in God, in the wonderful family and friends He's placed in my path. On my lowest days, something will happen that lets me know He's watching out for me, that He sends just the right person to minister to me and to comfort my heart when I need it most." ***

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#3. Men are jerks. If I were a woman I'd be a lesbian. You get to make love to other women and have little to do with asshole men. Lesbians are better lovers, too, because they know where everything is.

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#4. Why can't we say 'When!' about money the way we say 'When!' about coffee?

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#5. Did I think I'd ever find someone I could live with, she asked me, and I said yes, and she said who, and I said me with a vagina and cleavage a little dog could get lost in.

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#6. I'm a writer. I write because I don't talk so good.

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#7. Catholic sex is twenty minutes of pleading and whining (Vatican-approved foreplay), thirty seconds of involuntary shuddering and an hour of apologizing to God.

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#8. Homeworkers embody the real American Dream. Not fame or fortune, but being your own boss. Calling your own shots. Taking control of your life, not necessarily to work more--or less--but to work the way you want to work.

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#9. Whatever you are doing, therefore, whatever you are thinking, whatever you are feeling becomes of crucial importance at that moment,

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#10. I used to feel sorry for them, those people who cling to people. I always thought they brought more needs than gifts. I felt that if they didn't want to be by themselves, with themselves, I surely didn't want to be with them either.

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#11. My poignant regret is that I so nonchalantly ended my youth, blithely discarding those remaining seasons in the sun.

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#12. Get your life turned right-side-out again. Like a shirt that comes out of the dryer wrong-side-out, you need to turn your life right-side-out before putting it on again. Every day.

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#13. When was the last time someone was so overjoyed to see you, so brimming with love and affection that they literally ran to greet you? A dog will do that for you--ten, twenty, thirty times a day.

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#14. Learn to forgive. First others, then yourself - mostly yourself. But you have to forgive. "Get rid of the negativity. So much of your life can go down this dark drain if you let it. Every negative feeling makes you sicker. Every positive feeling makes you better.

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#15. Happiness is an 'I' thing," Culligan says. "It's within yourself. Nothing external is going to make you happy.

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#16. I was always a stranger at home, in all the places I ever lived.

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#17. That's the best way to judge a relationship. Do you like the person you are when you're with him?

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#18. Buddhist monk Sogyal Rinpoche put it this way: "Perhaps it is only those who understand just how fragile life is who know how precious it is.

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#19. an aching hollowness in the bosom, a dark cold speck at the heart, an obscure and boding sense of something that must be kept out of sight of the conscience;

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#20. you can forget about the 'Well, where shall we go for dinner tonight?' routine and all it entails. If you really feel like a McDonald's fix - and you're in Paris - you just go.

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#21. crows going in flocks and wolves in packs, but the lion and the eagle are solitaires.

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