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"A beautiful face cannot hide an ugly heart for long."
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"She also liked to remember that there could be no such thing as an intentional imperfection. People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good."

"Don't be consistent but be simply true."

"Just do you. The right people and opportunities will be drawn to that."

"What if pretending is interfering with the person you're meant to be? he said."

"Firen didn't waste any time setting up the meeting with Egnatious. The following day she was in such a rush to tell me about it that she burst into my room without knocking and found Andrew and me in an intimate and compromising position reminiscent of the game Twister. Also, I cannot confirm or deny if there was food involved. Let's just say I toppled over in embarrassment, taking Andrew down with me in a great heap. Firen didn't fare any better, as she nearly knocked herself out when she ran into the doorframe in an attempt to escape. We were both scarred for life, especially after Firen apologized for walking in on our 'naked fun time, which was apparently what Joseph called it. There were some things people should never know, and that was one of them."

"You shouldn't write about your personal life', says the one feeling threatened by the truth to the writer."

"People use masks in public and then wonder why their personal life, their relationships, don't work. If you're not being honest with others, there's nothing real about yourself to learn and, the wider the gap, the deeper the suffering. The heart wasn't meant to be closed in a box made of fake feelings and thoughts."

"Wade straight through life, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and heart open."

"The most important thing in life it to be true to ourselves, to never give up attempting to become the very finest version of what we wish to be, no matter how arduous that proves to be."

"An authentic life facing reality without mental equivocation is the simplest type of life."
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"Intelligence will teach you how to make a living, wisdom will teach you how to make a life."

"Don't speak thoughtlessly. Don't worry unnecessarily. Don't work half-heartedly. Don't spend recklessly. Don't give begrudgingly. Don't act self-centeredly. Don't live short-sightedly."

"A diamond will never tell you how valuable it is; if you don't already know, you are not worthy of it."

"School is a hospital where people recover from ignorance, life is a hospital where people recuperate from arrogance."

"The real power of a leader is in the number of minds he can reach, hearts he can touch, souls he can move, and lives he can change."
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