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You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

Lisa Kleypas

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Lisa Kleypas
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 5
Author
Novelist
Writer
Temple
Texas
Lisa Kleypas Ellis
Stop
Impossible
Happiness
Eluded
Learn
Expecting
Others
Expectations
May
Perfection
Find
Worst
Always
Enemy

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