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"You misinterpret everything, even the silence."
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"It is necessary to understand your destiny because you were created for a purpose."
"I know it's impossible for you to see peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them-the bad kids and the good kids and all kids-as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for. Varying degrees of sick, varying degrees of neurotic, varying degrees of self- actualized."
"My dad finished chewing something and then put his fork down and looked at me. 'The longer I do my job,' he said. 'the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.''That is really lovely,' my mom said. I liked that they liked each other. 'But isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.''True. Consciousness makes for poor windows, too. I don't think I'd ever thought about it quite that way."
"If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love."
"If you are unable to reach a person you must know that this happens not because that the roads are closed but because you don't know the true paths to reach that person!"
"Avoid judging others by trying to understand others and their concepts of love and care."
"Sex is a form of exploration, it is asking questions and getting answer."
"Say, you teach a five year old child a few verses from the Bible. And after memorizing them, he will become a part scholar in Christian theology. But that won't make him realize what Jesus actually meant when he said 'love thy neighbor'."
"Believe it or not, you and your enemies want many of the same things and share values."
"Getting rid of the wrong understanding and attaining the right understanding is indeed bliss."
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"But what now if all the peace, the comfort, the contentment were to come to a horrible end?"
"Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that."
"You're not cross with me, though?" he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, "No, no, I'm never cross with anyone."
"The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not."
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