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"Growth is betrayal."
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"All changes are born within."
"Anyone who accepts Jesus into his heart and believes Him always becomes great."
"Lay down your cynicism, and believe in the transformational power of love."
"A rose's beautiful scent is extracted only when it is crushed."
"Small caterpillars still become big butterflies."
"He'd changed since the last summer. Instead of Bermuda shorts and a T-shirt, he wore a button-down shirt, khaki pants, and leather loafers. His sandy hair, which used to be so unruly, was now clipped short. He look like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college-age villain was wearing to Harvard this year."
"Knowledge acted upon makes all the difference, produces the different results we have in life."
"There's something beautiful about facing tragedy, you crack open a new, you find yourself in the parts of you; that can finally be explored freely with out judgement or guilt. Where to from here doesn't exist & your not sure when it will return, but there's something beautiful in facing tragedy, a new type of being within you is born and one whom is more fearless than ever before."
"When you become the light, there will be no darkness."
"You're destined for greatness, Life said. "But first, I'm going to make you cry"."
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"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."
"Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went."
"The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist."
"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."
"A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world."
"Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey."
"Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man."
"A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience."
"There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't."
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