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"A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it."
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"The closest thing to perfection is imperfection."
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"It's not that I've been invited to the hole I'm standing in. It's that I accepted the invitation."
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"If you dream of becoming perfect, you never will.Be satisfied with being imperfect and that will make you perfect."
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"The fullness of life's balancing grace will demand the symmetry of recompense for all your loss and pain."
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"Pain dutifully reminds me that the world is terribly imperfect, but it faithfully helps me appreciate the world on those days when it's a little closer to being perfect."
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"Be open minded like the sky. Be accepting like the ocean. Be loving like a flower."
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"If the wind brushes against you, do not complain; it brushes against everyone."
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"You do not need to make everyone happy, because you are not paid for."
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"You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them."
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"In this world, the mistake is in where one says he has objections. There should be no objection to anything."
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"Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women."
Emotion
"If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that."
Kids
"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."
Imagination
"It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music."
Music
"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."
Reading
"Heaven and earthbegin in the unnamed:name's the motherof the ten thousand things."
Spiritual
"Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."
Love
"Judgement is poverty."
Ethics
"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next."
Life
"The truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing but does only and wholly what he must do."
Power
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