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"Sometimes, though, you make a pact with yourself. I'll pretend there's nothing wrong if you pretend there's nothing wrong. It's called denial, and it's one of the strongest pacts in the world. Just ask all those people who were still drinking champagne while the Titanic went down."
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"When you leave a port, ask yourself two questions: What mark you have made on that port and what have you learned from that port?"
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"Whether you are aware of it or not, your life is still disappearing. It's pouring out, it keeps diminishing."
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"You never know what people have endured to get where they are."
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"Why do you compare yourself to others? Can you carry weight of others on your shoulders?"
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Personal Development
"Everyone should think about why certain undesirable situations occur in life."
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"Knowing my soul is my lifetime-study."
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"What you are seeking is yourself."
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Personal Development
"Life is head and shoulders above all other things we regard as precious in this world."
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"The world is full of vanities."
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"Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and affords an unobstructed view of the undug but awaiting grave that says 'you're next.' Unfilial as this may seem, that was not at all so in my own case. It was only when I watched Alexander [my own son] being born that I knew at once that my own funeral director had very suddenly, but quite unmistakably, stepped onto the stage. I was surprised by how calmly I took this, but also by how reluctant I was to mention it to my male contemporaries."
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"Dreams can twist your emotions like no reality can."
Emotion
"Hayden shouts, "To the new Teen Uprising!"
Youth
"Elasticity is a fundamental principle of perception."
Perception
"They all think medicine should be magic, and they become mad at me when it's not."
Health
"How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?""They do it all the time," says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong."
Law
"I begin to wonder if David was like me. Seeing monsters everywhere and realizing there aren't enough slingshots in the world to get rid of them."
Fear
"I went home and tried to sleep, but couldn't, so I stared up at the moon, watching how it's trailing edge faded into darkness, so close to being full, but not quite there. A pregnant moon, Grandma called it. Full almost to bursting, and ready to give birth to something unthinkable."
Nature
"And you know the darkness beyond despair, just as intimately as you know the soaring heights. Because in this and all universes, there is balance. You can't have the one without facing the other. And sometimes you think you can take it because the joy is worth the despair, and sometimes you know you can't take it and how did you ever think you could? And there is the dance; strength and weakness, confidence and desolation."
Philosophy
"And I think, if thoughts are worth a penny, how much less promises must be worth. Especially the ones you're likely to break."
Philosophy
"The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible."
Wonder
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