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"Do you know what dead skin looks like when they take off a cast?That was my life, all that dead skin. It was strange to feel like the Ari I used to be. Except that wasn't totally true. The Ari I used to be didn't exist anymore. And the Ari I was becoming? He didn't exist yet."
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"All changes are born within."

"Anyone who accepts Jesus into his heart and believes Him always becomes great."

"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"."

"I put complains aside and replace each of them with trials and to my surprise, some things I see as difficult were not so before! I conclude that "Success resides behind the curtains of complains; tear those pieces of complains away and you will see the stage of your dreams clearly"!"

"Files of the past can be changed through shock, encouragement or pain."
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"I thought of what my mom had said. 'You talk like a man.' It was easier to talk like a man than to be one."

"What is this thing you call substance abuse? All I wanna do is forget and get loose.Drinking and smoking over and overWhat's so great about a life that's sober?There's nothing cool about being youngWhen the monsters of night have stolen the sun.I'm tired of searching for words in the sky.All I wanna do is drink and die. Nothing is real. It's all a big lie. All I wanna do is drink and die. There's nothing cool about being youngWhen the monsters of night have stolen the sun."

"Life was like that- there would always be something scratching at the door. And whatever was scratching would just scratch and scratch until you opened the door."

"See, this is the way I see it. Not all anger is the same. Because there are different kids of anger. And you know what else - sometimes, anger is a virtue. As long as you're not making someone bleed."

"All I knew is that sometimes my father was sad. I hated that he was sad. It made me sad too. I didn't like sad."
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