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Elizabeth Berg
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 2
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Nurse
St Paul
Minnesota
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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.
Elizabeth Berg
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One thing I have always been is too short. It's adorable when you're in junior high. After that, it's a pain in the ass for the rest of your life.
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Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you
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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.
Elizabeth Berg
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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 hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.
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There are some things you never say good-bye to
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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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This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.
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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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You don't get everything all at once. You wait.
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The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do just that.
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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 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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Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.
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As a writer, you should have a sticky soul the act of continually taking things in should be as much a part of you as your hair color.
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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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I like to listen to sad music when I’m sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry is the only thing that can make you feel better.
Elizabeth Berg
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My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.
Elizabeth Berg
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I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay. I've heard that when elephants are attacked they often run, not away, but toward each other. Perhaps it is because they are a matriarchal society.
Elizabeth Berg