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"I was not so old that I would deny my own senses."
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"How shall a society remember its miners underground while it cannot even remember its homeless above ground?"
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"Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them."
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"Open up your heart enables expansion of the dimensions of the conscious states."
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"The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own."
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"I was not so old that I would deny my own senses."
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"Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life."
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"Freedom of Speech doesn't justify online bullying. Words have power, be careful how you use them."
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"Being certain one is alive isn't something to which one pays mind. If you could ask the question, you were fine. If you could not, hopefully you had a cozy coffin."
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"But everyone knows someone who has died, I said. Why is it so hard to think about dying?'Because,' Morrie continued, 'most of us walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.'And facing death changes all that?'Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials. When you realize you are going to die, you see everything much differently.'He sighed. 'Learn how to die, and you learn how to live."
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"It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos."
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"There are always people who find their lives have become so unsupportable they believe the best thing they could do would be to hasten their transition to another plane of existence.""They kill themselves, you mean?" said Bod. He was about eight years old, wide-eyed and inquisitive, and he was not stupid."Indeed.""Does it work? Are they happier dead?""Sometimes. Mostly, no. It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean."
Mental Health
"Now me, said Mr. Vandemar."What number am I thinking of? "I beg your pardon? "What number am I thinking of? repeated Mr. Vandemar. "It's between one and a lot, he added, helpfully."
Mystery
"If you you write with enough assurance and confidence, you're allowed to do whatever you like. So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can."
Creativity
"There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't."
Religion
"If you have nothing left to want, then you just wait. Until there's nothing left to wait for."
Patience
"The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do."
Future
"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."
Reason
"I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend..."
Imagination
"It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black."
Fear
"I was not so old that I would deny my own senses."
Awareness
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