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"The longer I do my job ... the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel."
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"When you leave a port, ask yourself two questions: What mark you have made on that port and what have you learned from that port?"
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Personal Development

"The laws is not meant to destroy us. But our disobedience leads to our own destruction."
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Personal Development

"Whether you are aware of it or not, your life is still disappearing. It's pouring out, it keeps diminishing."
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Personal Development

"You never know what people have endured to get where they are."
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Personal Development

"Why do you compare yourself to others? Can you carry weight of others on your shoulders?"
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Personal Development

"Everyone should think about why certain undesirable situations occur in life."
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Personal Development

"Knowing my soul is my lifetime-study."
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Personal Development

"What you are seeking is yourself."
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Personal Development

"Life is head and shoulders above all other things we regard as precious in this world."
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"The world is full of vanities."
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"He was gone and did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth."
Forgiveness

"Teenagers think they are invincible with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail."
Spirit

"This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories. I only listened - the stories on my mind weren't that funny."
Friendship

"It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating."
Emotion

"The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it."
Joy

"Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children's librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I'll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid."
Education

"What you must understand about me is that I'm a deeply unhappy person."
Emotion

"I am trying to find ways to live honestly and hopefully in the world without ignoring or denying the universe s cold and painful indifference to us."
Philosophy

"She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me."
Reading

"Ben, if you get pee in my brand-new car, I am going to cut your balls off."Still peeing, Ben looks over at me smirking. "You re gonna need a hell of a big knife, bro."
Humor
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