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"Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another."
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"Limitations can be reasonably expanded. We are constantly challenging our limitations. But a hobbled mind is not going anywhere."
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"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
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"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."
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"Refuse to react to any angry actions."
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"Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them."
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"Immediate gratification is a dream killer."
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"Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."
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"You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control."
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"This is my life... my story... my book. I will no longer let anyone else write it, nor will I apologize for the edits I make."
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"When you are angry, close your eyes, you will regain your inner peace."
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"Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are."
Justice
"He wondered if there was anyone in the world who liked him. Liked him for himself alone."
Self
"She led him to the top of the stairs, where light came straight from the sky because the second-story windows of that house had been placed in the pitched ceiling and not the walls. There were two rooms and she took him into one of them, hoping he wouldn't mind the fact that she was not prepared; that though she could remember desire, she had forgotten how it worked; the clutch and helplessness that resided in the hands; how blindness was altered so that what leapt to the eye were places to lie down, and all else-doorknobs, straps, hooks, the sadness that crouched in corners, and the passing of time-was interference."
Love
"It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different from the miscellaneous giggles and smiles she had learned to be content with these past few years."
Joy
"There was a hint of spring in her sole green eyes, something summery in her complexion, and a rich autumn ripeness in her walk."
Nature
"Jump, if you want to, 'cause I'll catch you, girl. I'll catch you "fore you fall. Go as far inside as you need to, I'll hold your ankles. Make sure you get back out. I'm not saying this because I need a place to stay. That's the last thing I need. I told you, I'm a walking man, but I been heading in this direction for seven years. Walking all around this place. Upstate, downstate, east, west; I been in territory ain't got no name, never staying nowhere long. But when I got here and sat out there on the porch, waiting for you, well, I knew it wasn't the place I was heading toward; it was you. We can make a life, girl. A life."
Devotion
"I like marriage. The idea."
Love
"We were two throats and one eye and we had no price."
Unity
"If she answered, he could not hear it, and he certainly couldn't see her, so he went. First he crawled the rocks one by one, one by one, till his hands touched shore and the nursing sound of the sea was behind him. He felt around, crawled off and then stood up. Breathing heavily with his mouth open he took a few tentative steps. The pebbles made him stumble and so did the roots of trees. He threw out his hands to guide and steady his going. By and by he walked steadier, now steadier. The mist lifted and the trees stepped back a bit as if to make the way easier for a certain kind of man. Then he ran. Lickety-split. Lickety-split. Looking neither to the left nor to the right. Lickety-split. Lickety-split. Lickety-lickety-lickety-split."
Courage
"At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough."
Open-mindedness
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