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Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.

Robert Bly

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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Poet
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Madison
Minnesota
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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Every
Love
Mindfulness
Hostile
Personality
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I saw Sophia Loren - the Italian woman with those wonderful cheekbones - in a movie the other day. She must have had 24 face-lifts, and she looks like an alien, as if she weren't from this world at all. Her Italian wrinkles would have been a thousand times more beautiful.
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I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.
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The door to the soul is unlocked you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.
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There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.
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