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"I realized that it was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it. And since then, whenever I have heard of someone threatening to commit suicide, it has had little or no effect on me."
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"I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways."
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"What worried him worst at the moment - for it is often little things that are hardest to stand - was that his lip was bleeding where they had hit him and he couldn't wipe the little trickle of blood away although it tickled him."
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"Every goal has a road block, that is our fear of failure."
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"We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before."
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"Something they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you're new and out of your skull with desperation and ready to eliminate your map and they tell you how it'll all get better and better as you abstain and recover: they somehow omit to mention that the way it gets better and you get better is through pain. Not around pain, or in spite of it."
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"The whole thing could have been uncomfortable if all your wishes were to be drowned in to the sea or passed through a heart of a lion that shed not the innocent blood."
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"Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together."
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"The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go."
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"Forgiveness does carry with it numerous obstacles and one may well be surprised why many people find it a very difficult hurdle to jump over."
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"Having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor."
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"Morality is contraband in war."
Ethics
"Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point."
History
"Be the change that you want to see in the world."
Change
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always."
Philosophy
"Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame."
Thought
"Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart."
Heart
"A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal."
Policy
"Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared."
Life
"To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body."
Life
"Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment."
Society
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