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"I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming."
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"It is necessary to understand your destiny because you were created for a purpose."
"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 do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love."
"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!"
"Avoid judging others by trying to understand others and their concepts of love and care."
"Sex is a form of exploration, it is asking questions and getting answer."
"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'."
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"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."
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