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There is incredible value in being of service to others.

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Elizabeth Berg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: December 2
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St Paul
Minnesota
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As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.
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Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you
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It is never about how good your voice is it is only about feeling the urge to sing, and then having the courage to do it with the voice you are given.
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You don't get everything all at once. You wait.
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I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.
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You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart.
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I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am still listening. So you can still talk to me.
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Don't let your habits become handcuffs
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But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one day, wrecked on the rocks the next. Finding the balance between the two was the art and the salvation.
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Remember me in your dreams, as I will you.
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I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love after death than before.
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You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.
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It will happen when you're not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise.
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I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.
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I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I could go.
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The truth is, we usually only show our unhappiness to another woman. I suppose this is one of our problems. And yet it is also one of our strengths.
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You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.
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I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.
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For all it's problems and difficulties, life is mostly a wonderful experience, and it is up to each person to make the most of each day. I hope you are successful in your life, but look to the heavens and the earth and especially to other people to find your real wealth. Wherever I am, wherever you go, know that my love goes with you.
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Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.
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