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"When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity."
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"I know it's impossible for you to see peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them-the bad kids and the good kids and all kids-as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for. Varying degrees of sick, varying degrees of neurotic, varying degrees of self- actualized."

"My dad finished chewing something and then put his fork down and looked at me. 'The longer I do my job,' he said. 'the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.''That is really lovely,' my mom said. I liked that they liked each other. 'But isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.''True. Consciousness makes for poor windows, too. I don't think I'd ever thought about it quite that way."

"If you are unable to reach a person you must know that this happens not because that the roads are closed but because you don't know the true paths to reach that person!"

"Say, you teach a five year old child a few verses from the Bible. And after memorizing them, he will become a part scholar in Christian theology. But that won't make him realize what Jesus actually meant when he said 'love thy neighbor'."

"Getting rid of the wrong understanding and attaining the right understanding is indeed bliss."

"Understanding the value of time is understanding the true essence of life."

"What you cannot understand you don't treasure."

"If you want to understand what is wrong with stupid people you must be one of them."

"Man is the centrality of God's purpose on earth."

"It is not that I am very intelligent, but I try to understand with love."
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"There are no boundaries concerning your passion for education. No harm done, no offense given! Those who take education as an ass-suffering task makes it so because they have a phobia for alphabets."

"The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books."

"Some men can love forever, some for six years, some for six months, and others for six hours."

"If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image."

"There are better people in the world, do not let the worst do the worst to you, you deserve the best in life."

"The destiny of a man is determined by his daily action, God won't allow you go anywhere, if you don't make an attempt to move."
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