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"Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving."
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"There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself."

"Give with love, give with smile, give freely, it is our duty and responsibility to humanity."

"I will not find myself, nor will I obtain any precarious morsel of life in giving all of life to myself. If I am ever to find these things, I must first be willing to give these things away at the very moment that I come into possession of them."

"Give everything away. Create an emptiness to fill again and again with love."
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"Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain."

"The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors."

"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not."

"The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it."
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