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"There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing."
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"Think independently and critically, but never forget to think with understanding and love."

"Our life on earth is and ought to be material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly they are still entangled with the desire for ownership."

"A philosopher is a lover and searcher of truth, beauty, meaning, and wisdom."

"There is nothing wrong or right, only our thoughts make it so."

"Opinion about religion might be different, but religion should be one and that is the well being of humanity."

"You may not be rich with money, Socrates was not, your life still has tremendous value."

"You are the center of your universe, without you nothing is there."

"Fear is the chain still wrapped around a free man's leg."

"The role of a philosopher is to create a better way for the future generations."

"You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end."
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"The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart."

"I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly."

"It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out."

"That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation."

"You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'"
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