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"Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them."
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"The most dangerous negativity comes from ourselves in the form of doubts, fears and unreasonable self-criticisms."
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"It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a calculus equation."
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"Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood."
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"Sniffing glue is a homeless nonbeliever's prayer."
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"Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it."
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"Usually the term phobia refers to the psychological fear of the human mind from something that poses a threat. But when a species starts using the term fear against a biological portion of itself, there is nothing more demeaning than this."
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"The negative way of thinking based on constant complaints, strains, and objections of discontent steals our energy."
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"Words don't have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess."
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"Who has fear? The one who has greed has fear."
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"For how long are the people who seek for the approval of others keep putting their self-worth in the hands of people?"
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"A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shadows. A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically."
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"...and it is generally understood that a party hardly ever goes the way it is planned or intended. This last, of course, excludes, those dismal slave parties, whipped and controlled and dominated, given by an ogreish professional hostess. These are not parties at all but acts and demonstrations, about as spontaneous as peristalsis and as interesting as it's end product."
Social

"...and the break would never come as long as fear can turn to wrath."
Emotion

"Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra."
Nature

"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."
Creativity

"It's all fine to say, "Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget-and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change."
Healing

"The wedding was in Monterey, a sombre boding ceremony in a little Protestant chapel. The church had so often seen two ripe bodies die by the process of marriage that it seemed to celebrate a mystic double death with its ritual."
Relationship

"Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans."
Perspective

"Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments."
Work

"Curious how a place unvisited can take such hold on the mind so that the very name sets up a ringing."
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