"I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself, maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it."

Identity, Perspective, Self, Truth, Growth

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"I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself, maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it."

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"I am not the river I am the net."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

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"I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"What's in a name? The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"The sooner you answer the question, "who am I" the more effective and successful life you will have."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"I hadn't understood at the time. If sinners were so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why.Without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my pastwas my life."

Janet Fitch, American Author

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"You couldn't escape the pointy hat, though. There was nothing magical about a pointy hat except that it said that the woman underneath it was a witch. People paid attention to a pointy hat."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Forms come and go. You, the quantum non-entity behind your human identity, comes nor goes."

Fakeer Ishavardas, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Fall in love with your uniqueness because that's what makes your presence on earth a very special one."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

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"Her name badge read: Hello! My name is DIE, DEMIGOD SCUM!"

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child."

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"We take the elevator to the third floor, to the office of Dr. Harrison Chance. His name alone has put me off. Why not Dr. Victor?"

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"When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth."

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"Chase every rung of possibility, and you still get absolutely nowhere."

Life

"All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here."

Philosophy

"It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn't."

Perception

"Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board."

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"Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you."

Ethics

"What is a parent, really, but somebody who picks up the things a child leaves behind - a trail made of stripped off clothing, orphaned shoes, tiny bright plastic game pieces, and nostalgia - and who hands back each of these when its needed?"

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"On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone."

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