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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
Personal Development

"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."

"It can be a beautiful experience to look for the magic that is hidden within the realm of our lives, but let's not let the process blind us to the majesty that is right in front of us."

"Your life is a reflection. you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE. You gotta BE it to SEE it."
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"Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room."

"The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance. You must take your chance, boy. The choice has been all yours."

"You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care."

"Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now."

"People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know."

"The modern State, whether in a totalitarian or a democratic country, has far too much power, and we are probably right to fear it."

"The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured."

"Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up."
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