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"The only causes of regret are laziness outbursts of temper hurting others prejudice jealousy and envy."
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"Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you're 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written, or you didn't go swimming in those warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It's going to break your heart. Don't let this happen."

"How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past!"

"Time lost can never be regained."

"We are discouraged, when we fail to nourish the soul with its spiritual food."

"Many people, who should have been rejoicing for what they've achieved, are rather regretting just because of one reason; they looked at what someone else was doing. Comparison eliminates contentment and then kills inner joy!"

"I wasn't able to be that person for you, and I did a terrible thing. I feel awful about it. But there was something wrong between us from the start, as if we'd done the buttons up wrong."

"The only thing you have to show for a wasted or spent time is that you just realize that you are getting older."

"To waste time is to become wasted."
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"Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them."

"Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it."

"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate."

"Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves."

"We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children."

"Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life."

"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."
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