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"But you have to sacrifice yourself for YOURSELF, too."
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"The meetings and marches and vigils are cool, but if the enemy isn't present, you're just talking slick to a can of oil."

"Waiting for a hot pocket to cook we'd fuck and be satisfied, barefoot on new york city apartment linoleum. A satisfying hot pocket and a big ass smile and a tight ass grip and a wall beside a random pipe beside the stove where we left palm and dick prints. We fucked like this. Three condoms in an hour and a half and where are you now? Holding the hand of some local dude you wish was a little more international, wishing you had known I was enough and asked me to stay. You are standing in the kitchen waiting for popcorn to pop while he washes dishes, not knowing I'm wishing back for you."

"I speak and help some folks only because I believe they may be god in flesh, testing me for politeness."

"Sex separation in the classroom leads to a bullshit socio-economic situation perpetuated by people with good intentions."

"There are institutions filled with people who talk to god. we've labeled and drugged them."
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"The most important journey in your life will be the journey to find yourself. To find who you are, to find what you love, is the greatest gift in life. Look at yourself, honestly, and find who you really are. To reveal your true self might be scary but the act of learning who you really are is important to make it possible to live your best possible life."

"There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught."

"You are the most important person in your life. Your relationship with yourself defines your relationships with every other person you encounter. Celebrate yourself and celebrate all those around you."

"There is no denial that the lack of self-love conditions many to feel unimportant or irrelevant."

"We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better."

"My worth changes with every choice I make and every action I take. I can choose myself to uselessness or to being valuable."

"You have everything inside you, though you sometimes only recognise certain bits relating to the current stage of your path."

"To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other."

"Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity."
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