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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

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Julia Sweeney

I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that.

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It took me years, but letting go of religion has been the most profound wake up of my life. I feel I now look at the world not as a child, but as an adult. I see what's bad and it's really bad. But I also see what is beautiful, what is wonderful. And I feel so deeply appreciative that I am alive. How dare the religious use the term 'born again. ' That truly describes freethinkers who've thrown off the shackles of religion so much better!

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If I look over my life, every single step of maturing for me, every single one, has had the exact same common denominator: accepting what was true over what I wished were true.

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Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit. . . Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.

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My philosophy involves imaging terrible things happening all the time, and getting used to it, so reality isn't so bad. And then you're always happy. You really just have to think yourself through it. That is how I've been able to come to happiness, but it is a subtle difference between scaring yourself all the time with terrible things happening, it's more about actually about making peace with it. That's my advice.

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Why isn't there a book about someone losing their faith and it being a beautiful experience?

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