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"How can one person be more real than any other? Well, some people do hide and others seek. Maybe those who are in hiding ... are simply inauthentic... But there are folks who know and aren't afraid to look and won't turn tail should they find it--and if they never do, they'll have a good time anyway because nothing, neither the terrible truth or the absence of it, is going to cheat them out of one honest breath of earth's sweet gas."
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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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"They fell asleep smiling. It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning."


"And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe- and go on about our tasks."


"The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature."


"It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate response to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure."


"If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it."


"Although the surface of our planet is two-thirds water, we call it the Earth. We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but that's no matter. The sea is the cradle we all rocked out of, but it's to dust that we go. From the time that water invented us, we began to seek out dirt. The further we separate ourselves from the dirt, the further we separate ourselves from ourselves. Alienation is a disease of the unsoiled."


"When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around."


"We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves."


"The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there is nothing left to want. I think that what the Buddha may have been trying to tell us is that we have it all, each of us, all the time; therefore, desire is simply unnecessary."
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