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"It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem."
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"To say 'I want to have sex with this person' is to express a desire which is not intellectually directed in the way that 'I want to eradicate poverty in the world' is an intellectually directed desire. Furthernore, the gratification of sexual desire can only ever give temporary satisfaction. Thus as Nagarjuna, the great Indian scholar said: 'When you have an itch, you scratch. But not to itch at all is better than any amount of scratching."
"Cultivate confidence, and eradicate the need to control."
"I have a copy of you in my brain, when you make me angry I do very bad things to you."
"When animals behave like humans or when humans behave like animals, don't be surprised because in every animal there is a human and in every human there is an animal!"
"Both friend and enemy reside within us. One lives by the rule of compassion, the other by the rule of hard knocks. Though potential influence of either extreme is inevitable, our actions bear witness to the one we embrace."
"Help does not come from anywhere outside - it comes only from within ourselves."
"To open door to hatred is to open one's spirit to misery."
"Express your regrets to the right people and you will be encouraged positively."
"Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy of any one family's history."
"Negative thoughts about ourselves steals our energy."
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"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."
"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."
"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."
"Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil."
"Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true."
"It is thus with most of us we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay."
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