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"Stay in the middle of the bell-curve of social norms and follow along, or you will find out the about freedom you never had."
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"It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way."
"People like us are dead to society unless we're pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them."
"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."
"If I have forfeited the ability to wonder so as not to offend the tenets of the culture, and if I have sacrificed warm dreams on the cold altar of conformity, it is likely because I have somewhere traded the marvel of the infinite for the malaise of the finite."
"Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home. It was better never to have been born-never to have wanted anything, never to have hoped for anything."
"Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be."
"Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth."
"I enjoy being a lemming,we line up to do everything together."
"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
"Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going."
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"Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations."
"Ascension through all levels of consciousness and awareness can only happen when you live life as you, and not how others think you should live. How could self-realization possibly be anything other than being yourself?"
"The master tools of success are invitation, patience, time, gentleness, cooperation and surrender."
"Low-grade pain can be so rooted in your being that the pain begins to look like you, and you begin to look like the pain - it becomes your identity."
"Pain is the clarion of aliveness trumpeting that you are living in the marvelous tender cause of life!"
"People have some really crazy ideas about love, friends and relationships. They have the absurd belief that their friends, children, family, lovers and companions can make them happy."
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