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"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
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"All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person."
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"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."
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"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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"There was a faint ringing in her ears that turned into a roar. And beneath it, a sudden wave of numbness, a too-familiar lack of sight or sound or feeling. She didn't know why it happened, because she had been so dead set on hating him, but . . . it would have been nice, she supposed. It would have been nice to have one person who knew the absolute truth about her-and didn't hate her for it.It would have been really, really nice.She walked away without another word. With each step she took back to her room, that flickering light inside of her guttered.And went out."
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"I've always wanted the happy ending, but now I'll just settle for the ending."
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"I thought about Kizuki. "So you finally made Naoko yours," I heard myself telling him. Oh, well, she was yours to begin with. Now maybe, she's where she belongs. But in this world, in this imperfect world of the living, I did the best I could for Naoko."
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"And as a sign that everything was now all right in the world, she opened her mouth a fraction, and after arranging her sticky lips better around her old teeth, smacked them and settled down into a state of blissful rest. Levin watched these last movements of hers closely. 'I'm just the same!' he said to himself; 'Just the same! Never mind... All is well."
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"What if each time you experienced an emotion, you acknowledged it, accepted it, and became curious about its message for you (instead of trying to make it go away or make it last longer)? Imagine how this could change your life. Imagine how heard, loved, and honoured you would feel if you really listened to yourself."
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"She is so secure in her beautifully imperfect self that she would welcome you with open arms, no judgment, and complete acceptance."
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"We tend to get irritated when we see somebody doing something that is unusual and unfamiliar to our thinking."
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"Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers."
Darkness
"Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!"
Genius
"Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness."
Discipline
"May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters."
Life
"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
Acceptance
"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."
Solitude
"In the country of pain we are each alone."
Nation
"True feeling justifies whatever it may cost."
Emotional
"Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there."
Nothing
"Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace."
Nature
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