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"We seem to be unable to resist overstating every aspect of ourselves: how long we are on the planet for, how much it matters what we achieve, how rare and unfair are our professional failures, how rife with misunderstandings are our relationships, how deep are our sorrows. Melodrama is individually always the order of the day."
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"To change reality, change your thoughts and perceptions."
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Personal Development

"It is so sad that too many individuals spend their entire lives trying to impress people who are mostly clueless about their true purpose on earth."
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Personal Development

"We all know there is something wrong with our culture, the state of our world, and with ourselves."
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Personal Development

"Real? Real depends upon your perspective, Annabelle. People never see life exactly the same way. The world is what you think it is."
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Personal Development

"Belief has nothing to do with facts,especially for the unbelievable facts."
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Personal Development

"The worldly life is constantly ablaze. To keep expectation, that it will extinguish, is wrong. So then we too should say to it, 'you can keep on burning!"
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Personal Development

"If I'm surprised at where I'm at, it's probably because I'm not listening to the reality that listening to the voices that I've listened to have put me here. So, maybe I should be less surprised and more disappointed."
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Personal Development

"Faeces by any other name would smell as gross."
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Personal Development

"In this universe, all we perceive is a virtual reality created by the neurons."
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Personal Development

"Enter the world of things as they are."
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"We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us."
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"A fundamental truth, is that there is simply no such thing as an inherently boring person or thing. People are only in danger of coming across as such when they either fail to understand their deeper selves or don't dare or know how to communicate them to others."
Identity

"What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married."
Marriage

"Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to."
Books

"We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety."
People

"I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it."
Success

"If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us."
Psychology

"My dad was a slightly stricter version of Richard Dawkins. The worldview was that there are idiots out there who believe in Santa Claus and fairies and magic and elves, and we're not joining that nonsense."
Belief

"Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough."
Growth

"We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves."
Identity
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