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"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped."
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"It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality."
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Personal Development
"It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition generates the violent disappointments which rack our days and etch themselves in lines of acrimony across our faces."
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"But alas, the world is not a wish-granting factory."
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"You cannot change reality by ignoring it."
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"The reality about life is that challenges are inevitable."
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Personal Development
"I don't know why everyoneis still trying to find out whether heaven and hell exist.Why do we need more evidence?They exist here on this very Earth.Heaven is standing atop Mount Qasiounoverlooking the Damascene sightswith the wind carrying Qabbani'sdulcet words all around you.And hell is only four hours away in Aleppo where children's cries drown out the explosions of mortar bombsuntil they lose their voice,their families, and their limbs.Yes, hell certainly does existright now, at this moment,as I pen this poem. And all we're doingto extinguish this hellfireis sighing, shrugging, liking, and sharing.Tell me: what exactly does that makeus? Are we any better than the gatekeepers of hell?"
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"Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations."
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"Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect."
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"It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake."
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"When someone is vicious toward you they are giving you a glimpse of the pain they carry in themselves."
Empathy
"Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch."
Intelligence
"How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality, narrowly or completely."
Perception
"The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back."
Happiness
"Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving."
Contentment
"Let each of us lead a revolution of support in the lives of others."
Community
"When we come face-to-face with our fears we are really confronting ourselves."
Courage
"Run, leap and celebrate for you are alive today!"
Celebration
"Society has a herd psychology, so until we have more good shepherds we are lost."
Society
"When we try to control, we become controlled; when we release, we become free."
Freedom
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