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"Introversion at least if extreme is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity."
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"No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted. I fit a window frame into a brick wall. With a little brush, the size for fingernail polish, I glue it. The window is the size of a fingernail. The glue smells like hair spray. The smell tastes like oranges and gasoline."
"We have to know ourselves to know where we end and another person begins, and we have to develop the skills to navigate the space between us. Or else we will seek wholeness through false means that honor neither us nor those we love."
"In a way, being an addict is very proactive. A good addiction takes the guesswork out of death. There is such a thing as planning your getaway."
"We live with the key purpose of receiving the approval of those around us because we don't know who we are in reality."
"Because of propaganda induced cognitive dissonance, most people hate themselves and don't even know it."
"Maybe you never considered yourself a bully, a batterer or an abuser before, but maybe you are - to yourself."
"Whatever you frequently introduce to your subconscious mind is what it will continuously feed your feelings and emotions with."
"When we hold-on to someone's imperfections we become emotionally pair-bonded to their maladies."
"The thought is just as strong as the consequence."
"Suicide is very contagious."
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"To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!' (Buck, 57)"
"Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung"
"Just as he lived with them alive, he will live with them dead. Someday he will accept their death as part of his life. He will weep no more. He will carry them in his memory and his thoughts. His flesh and blood are part of them. So long as he is alive, they, too, will live in him. The big wave came, but it went away. The sun shines again, birds sing, and earth flowers."
"It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late."
"Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life flowed and eddied, but he was not part of it."
"Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together."
"Of course imagination is the beginning of creation. Without imagination there can be no creation."
"Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels."
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