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"The crucial point in life is: are we living our 'own' life or simply a life for 'other' people. Are we not playing a role on behalf of some social groups and masquerading for fear of being excluded? ['Quest for the real moment']"
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"To be ordinary, be normal; to be original, be different; to be valuable, be unique; to be priceless, be yourself."

"Do what is best for you--no matter what others think."

"If you can honor yourself and be real about your discomfort and pain, then your happiness will be just as real."

"Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment."

"Always tying to please others is definitely an assured path to stress and failures in life."

"True creation requires authority and authenticity."

"For how long are you going to continue hiding your true original self because you are very afraid of what some people might say or think about you? Isn't it time for you to dare to never allow others to dictate the direction of your life?"

"Be true to yourself to reveal your own unique beauties, feelings, and perceptions."

"You must detach yourself from the stereotypical life to live an effective one."
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"When people become prisoners of daily habits and happen to be hostages of choices, which they made in the past, but which they finally do not actually want, they experience the need to abandon their corporeal prison at a certain time in life. ['Corporeal prison']"

"Many men remain spoiled boys that have never grown up. Women are prepared to raise them and take pain with patience, both as a condescendant contribution to supercilious compassion and as a proof of the eminence of their sense of worth. ['PrAat-A -penser" / "Ready-to-wear thinking']"

"When we are smitten, we await love to be "remontant and to be blooming over and over again, like remontant roses, with blossoms scenting through all the seasons of life. Passion and patience are to be good allies, though."

"Definitions and meanings change all the time. Truth and reality are very volatile, indefinite, multi layered and sometimes very paradoxical. That's why it is very fiddly to make a set definition for the phenomena of our daily life. [' Did not expect it would ever happen, there']"

"When words have vanished, when daily habits have extinguished emotional exchange, only killing silence remains and indifference takes over. ['Words had disappeared']"

"Let us keep enough money to enjoy each breath we take, but definitely not too much, if we don't want to spoil the fragrance of our dreams and the poem of life."

"It is so simple and easy to hate and so grueling and hard to love, when the emotional "love forever- revelation has become a crumbling "love never, ever again- crack-up. There is no route back to a paradise lost, when the bonds of trust have, irrevocably, been blasted. ['Another empty room']"

"Conversation often becomes mere verbal performance and oral horseplay rather than fair-minded communication. ['Juicy rumours ']"

"Is heaven a place in the sky?Heaven is what we wear in our heart and in our mind. ['Is heaven a place in the sky?']"

"We need not be afraid of expecting the unexpected, but let us wheedle each instant we enjoy and endear each happy moment we encounter; let us watch each step we take and each move we make, ever since happiness is a loving and appealing fairy, but utterly frail and vulnerable. ['Happy days are back again']"
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