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“I don't know if I continue, even today,
always liking myself. But what I learned to
do many years ago was to forgive myself. It
is very important for every human being to
forgive herself or himself because if you
live, you will make mistakes - it is
inevitable. But once you do and you see the
mistake, then you forgive yourself and say,
'well, if I'd known better I'd have done
better,' that's all. So you say to people who
you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,'
and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If
we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see
our own glory in the mirror because we have
the mistake between our faces and the mirror;
we can't see what we're capable of being. You
can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end
the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I
think that young men and women are so caught
by the way they see themselves. Now mind you.
When a larger society sees them as
unattractive, as threats, as too black or too
white or too poor or too fat or too thin or
too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But
you can overcome that.
The real difficulty is to overcome how you
think about yourself. If we don't have that
we never grow, we never learn, and sure as
hell we should never teach.” ~ Maya Angelou ~
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pays to have a camera in hand
caught the moment
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a fantastic surreal slice of life...
i should try this one day :))
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:) I love it. I bought one of these for my
mom years ago (before the thong was an
option!) and she absolutely wore it out. I
finally found another appropriate one for
her, it has a coconut bra and sarong. I think
a thong is a bit much for my 70 year old mom
:) :)
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This made me smile.....wonderful advice! Have
the best day : )
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Great capture and wonderful words. Thanks for
sharing...
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You have such a wonderful outlook on life! I
love the picture and quotations. It could
spark a huge contemplation of body image and
society... I've seen the shirt in beach gift
shops, but I have never seen anyone
(brave/crazy/confident/clueless/amazing?)
enough to wear it!
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ps. The Artistotle quotation is
beautiful.......
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Marvelous picture,excellent shot.congrats.
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Cool ! :-) great capture and quotes !
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Love it and love your words....you are so
right!
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Being a cartoonist, I really enjoy the funny
side of this one....love it!
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What can I say, dear friend of mine?...... OH
MY.... what a great laugh I got so early this
morning...
OF COURSE...... I LOVE IT!!!!! but much
more than that.... I LOVE YOU for putting it
here and the perfect words and quotes....that
go so perfectly with it.
Your 6 ft Tall Flickr Friend ~ PJ
On one hand:
We all know what it feels like to not be
perfect because NONE OF US ARE!!!!
On the OTHER HAND:
We are all perfect "AS IS" .....
as Godde created us, as our mothers gave
birth to us.... as we accept our own selves
as good and lovely and perfect AS IS!! NO
MATTER WHAT OUR INNER BRAT says about us.
PJ (who thinks you are beautiful, brave and
best of all... funny!)
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I love it!!
I especially love the quote about
"enough".
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Ohmygosh!! My first thought from the
thumbnail was that for someone who shy's away
from sp's, she's gotten really brave, really
fast!!!
Great message to go with this shot,
Antoinette!
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I've always thought those were so funny! She
wears it well!
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Right on girl!! Great one!
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hilarious!
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;-)))
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LOL!!
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like your words and your
perspective...thoughtful, sensitive and true.
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hahahahahahahahaha!!!!
hahahahahahaha!!!!
phew!
I'll be back to comment later!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
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LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Too funny!!!! Thanks
for sharing the laughters!! This woman must
have a great senese of humor to have put that
dress on!
Hey, guess what? I've just decided what to
wear now! HA!! Feel so relieved! :-) E-you
as soon as I can! Lots of love!
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 OMG....after seeing this you made your
decision on what to wear? now I'm
worried!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
can't wait for your return!
Ah, Maggie, you have such a nice response to
this silly capture! You're so dear!
LOVE your buddy icon!
Thanks for your visit!!
 Thanks Deanna!!!
This woman was soooooo funny! And the best
part was she was laughing to after getting a
lot of whistles!!!
 and her friend had a "cape" and
made a comment the two were quite a pair!!!!!
it was TRUE!!!!
well, thank goodness, my backside doesn't
look like this, nor what is probably
underneath!!!!!
 Yes, we really need to accept ourselves for
who we are!
Oh, PJ...you're so right....a butt is always
just a butt! 
can't wait to visit your photostream!
ah, thanks so much for agreeing!!!
 I can't stop visiting your latest post!!!
Thanks for your visits!!!! How do you keep
up?
yes, I loved all the quotes for different
reasons!
Thank YOU for visiting!
Your little whimsy says it all!
 Thanks, Marilyn!!! Hope everything is ok up
your way....seems like a photo disappeared!
 OMG Peggy, you've gotta get a pic of your
mom in one of these!!!!!
 Wouldn't it be funny if we all wore these
and took a group photo!!!! (even the guys!)
You're SOOOO right...I would have been
furious if I had forgotten my camera!!!!!
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OMG!!!!!!!!!! ROTFLMAO!!!! I so love you!
Your words are always said at the right time
in my life.
Love ya
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and I SO LOVE YOU TOO, Tammy Girl! Glad
this arrived at a perfect moment!
What I loved the most was that as this woman
was approaching a larger group just footsteps
away from us, they started to cheer! We were
being kinda shy about it and they just said
it like it was....like how often do we see
people's tees, read, smile, look away, but
rarely say anything! Ah, it was such a
wonderful day for people watching....and this
gal's friend, with her cape....wish I had
gotten that shot too! I think I was having
trouble keeping my camera steady at that
point...thank God for the stablizer!!!
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I was a bit outrageous in my teen years,
mostly in what I wore, this outfit would have
been right up my alley!!
I was taught early in my life, to love
myself, then I would be capable of loving
others. We should not only forgive ourselves,
but forgive anyone else who has wronged us,
or we perceive to have wronged us. It has
worked for me. Holding on to past hurts will
fester in the soul and make us unwell, while
the 'hurtee' goes blythly about his/her
business, probably knowing nothing of your
hurt feelings....let it go!!
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Ah, Jeannie, thanks for sharing your story!
I don't see you as outrageous, ever! But
yes, I guess the more I think about it,
creative spirits love to wear challenging
outfits!!!! And you, who love cloth so much!
I have to admit to the hot pants fad . . .
can you believe it? You're blessed to have
been taught those lessons. I was only
criticized by a wicked
grandmother.......pretty devastating;
fortunately, I had another wonderful
grandmother who was loving, kind and full of
unconditional love! Thanks for your words of
wisdom. More people need to understand this!
Letting go is sometimes easier said than
done! Love to YOU. Your family is blessed!
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The only way I would ever look thin!!!!!!!!!
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Oh, Evie....you are just beautiful inside
and out....did you ever think God made us to
be thin forever? I believe the next phase
was called zaftik!!!!!
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Well, I'm back!!! And still chuckling! But
this really hit me with a one-two punch. I
have heard really good speakers and they will
pull you in with humor - have you laughing
till the tears flow. And then they will get
serious and slip in their message and it will
penetrate your heart like an arrow. That is
exactly what you did with this piece!
Such a wonderful and fun array of quotes and
tags .... and then I read the Maya Angelou
quote you put in the first comment (love how
you separated it like that!) and I think I
stopped breathing for just a bit .... I
honestly thought it was your words because it
sounds just like YOU! What powerful and wise
philosophy .... what a pattern for LIFE.
Thank you, dearest friend, for the one-two
punch! I needed it.
(ps - I'm kinda curious to know what the
FRONT of that shirt looked like!!!
hehehehehe!!!!!)
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I love the way you worded your comment,
expressing your feelings about the one-two
punch! Because you hit me too, with your
ps!!!!!!! Now you've got me curious, as I
don't remember the front of the shirt!
Thanks for taking the time to comment, my
dear friend. I treasure your words, always.
You know me so well!
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ThIs is sooooooooooooooooooo funny. HA HA HA
HEE HEE HEE. I needed a good laugh tonight.
I am laughing so hard that I have tears in my
eyes, and my stomach hurts.
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!!!!! I love crazy tee shirts :-)*******
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Hahahahaha! She is brave and has a great
sense of humor.
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audace!!!
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lol Wonderful!
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excellent. i miss erma bombeck. use to read
her every week.
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Yeah, we need a new Erma Bombeck to help us
smile through the day. All your quotes are
wonderful, but the ability to laugh at
ourselves a la Erma is wonderful.
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 Yes....you're right about needing a new
Erma!!!
 How we MISS her!
good, more laughs!
 ah, a beautiful new flickr face! welcome!
yes...I was so impressed that she could wear
something like this!
isn't it the craziest!!!
 I'm soooooo glad you had a good belly laugh,
Bran!
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No wonder she got all the whistles! This is
cute. A wonderful quote from Maya : )
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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called The World Around Us / Icon contest for July
please Vote now ., and we'd love to have this added to the
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Thank you for smile 
I think this photo is a
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Excellent picture.
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" LOL " ! thanks for making me
Smile !!!
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;)
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And she wears it so proudly! My Mother-in-law
would have loved to have one of these!
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:-) cool!
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 nice to meet you~ thanks for stopping by!
Yes, she was so nonchalant about it! A
whole crows of people cheered at one point!
It was WILD and WONDERFUL!
Hey....cool logo!
 I LOVE making people smile!!! And this lady
did too!
It was a SUPER day!!!!
Thanks for your visit!
Thanks for your special visit and invite! I
think more people visited me from Super Shots
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Ah, yes, how I LOVE Maya Angelou!
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 Wow, thanks for all the smiles!!!!!
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Wonderful image!
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It took me a while to stop laughing... and
then I read all the thoughtful quotes you
added. Amazing combination!
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thanks for visiting!
this was, indeed, very funny!
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Lovely Photo!
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lol
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thanks for stopping by!  Gee, you've been so kind to spend time here
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