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Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.

Marianne Williamson

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Marianne Williamson
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
Author
Peace Activist
Philanthropist
Politician
Writer
Houston
Texas
Marianne Deborah Williamson
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King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.
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