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"Are you what others say and think you are? Or are you who you are regardless of what others say and think?"

"Always be true to yourself, you matter the most."

"Empowerment comes from self-realization and recognition of our internal gifts, which we already have."

"If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the painful process of finding it."
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"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

"You'd be surprised just how fast you can close the door on your past. Learn needlepoint. Make a stained-glass lamp."

"No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted. I fit a window frame into a brick wall. With a little brush, the size for fingernail polish, I glue it. The window is the size of a fingernail. The glue smells like hair spray. The smell tastes like oranges and gasoline."

"We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior."

"Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?"

"The shortest distance between two points is a time line, a schedule, a map of your time, the itinerary for the rest of your life.Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list."
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