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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
To live your best life every day, because tomorrow isn’t promised.
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Mario Molina
Atmospheric chemist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1995
So achievement, to me, is something that just comes with this attitude of doing your work the best you can in a passionate way. It’s not something that you have to expect. It’s something that’s a consequence of what you do, but it’s certainly important.
You are good enough.
Give, give, give. The more you give, the happier you are.
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View profile →Escaping an abusive teen marriage and being blessed with the opportunity to create a new life for myself and my two young children in London at the height of the swinging 60s.
My father was a very macho, controlling man and we clashed a lot. He told me that I would never be able to keep a husband with my attitude. He was right! I’ve had two short, unsuccessful marriages.
Arrogance combined with egotism and selfishness.
At this time in my life, I quite like myself but, for a large portion of my life, I deplored being shy.
I worked in a Helms Bakery assembly line that separated egg whites from the yolks and from time to time a box of rotten eggs would come through. Need I say more?
Loving, sincere, honest.
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