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"I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it."
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"All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person."

"We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough."

"Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."

"I think it doesn't matter if you or I or anybody else thinks homosexuality is a sin. It doesn't matter if you or I think anything is a sin. It doesn't matter if homosexuality is a sin or not. In fact, it doesn't matter if anything anybody else does is a sin or not.Because sin is a very personal thing! It always has been and it always will be!And it has nothing to do with love."

"There came a time when you realised that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went."

"You have to accept that you'll never be good enough for some people. Whether that is going to be your problem or theirs is up to you."

"A sober friend from Texas said once that the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. I hate this insight so much."
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"Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three."


"I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough, though, she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be."


"Advice! Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it."


"I'd run. But maybe you can't run. Think of that, too.' His yellow eyes seemed to look inward, and he sounded tired. 'Sometimes you can't run."


"Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm."


"Oh, how long were the days of a man.When he strode upon the broken land.He sailed as far as a man could steer.And he never wished to lose his fear.For the fear of man is a thing untold.It keeps him safe, and it proves him bold!Don't let fear make you cease to strive,for that fear it proves you remain alive!I will walk this broken road,and I will carry a heavy load!So come at me with your awful lies,I'm a man of truth and I'll meet your eyes!"


"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow."


"A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough."


"You're welcome in my house when this is over. We'll open a cask of Master al'Vere's best brandy. We'll remember those who fell, and we'll tell our children how we stood when the clouds turned black and the world started to die. We'll tell them we stood shoulder to shoulder, and there was just no space for the Shadow to squeeze through."
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