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"I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself."
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"It's not about being ready or feeling prepared all the time, sometimes you just have to do what you know you have to do. And when you do " you will always see that you're more ready and more prepared than you realize. Never doubt yourself or you may never do anything of significance."
"When you're about to judge, look in the mirror and start."
"No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer."
"I was lieing to myself when I thought I was lost, I have never been lost - I just wasn't ready to be found."
"Never settle; if it doesn't feel right, it's not suppose to."
"Don't dim magic because there are non believers, let it shine out of you and they won't know how to look away."
"Determination is learning to form a habit, and never breaking it in future."
"Focus on your potential not your past."
"Trust in your story, it's powerful enough. Oftentimes, it is not the lack of power that is our struggle; but it is our unawareness of the power that we do have, which is our biggest hurdle to surmount."
"Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward - get real with yourself."
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"An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience."
"The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him."
"Elisha,' he said, 'no matter what happens to me, where I go, what folks say about me, no matter what anybody says, you remember - please remember - I was saved. I was there."
"That the world calls morality is nothing but the dream of safety. That's how the world gets to be so fucking moral. The only way to know that you are safe is to see somebody else in danger-otherwise you can't be sure if you're safe."
"Well,' I said, 'Paris is old, is many centuries. You feel, in Paris, all the time gone by. That isn't what you feel in New York - 'He was smiling. I stopped.'What do you feel in New York?' he asked.'Perhaps you feel,' I told him, 'all the time to come. There's such power there, everything is in such movement. You can't help wondering-I can't help wondering-what it will all be like-many years from now."
"If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody."
"A real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things that can be named."
"That was how I met her, in a bar in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, she was drinking and watching, and that was why I liked her, I thought she would be fun to have fun with."
"It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian."
"If you know from whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations on where you can go."
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