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"Some stories, you use up. Others use you up."
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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
"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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Personal Development
"The world is full of vanities."
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Personal Development
"Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and affords an unobstructed view of the undug but awaiting grave that says 'you're next.' Unfilial as this may seem, that was not at all so in my own case. It was only when I watched Alexander [my own son] being born that I knew at once that my own funeral director had very suddenly, but quite unmistakably, stepped onto the stage. I was surprised by how calmly I took this, but also by how reluctant I was to mention it to my male contemporaries."
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"If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't."
Life
"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."
People
"First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life."
Family
"You'd be surprised just how fast you can close the door on your past. Learn needlepoint. Make a stained-glass lamp."
Growth
"We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior."
Compassion
"Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?"
Happiness
"This is your life, and its ending one minute at a time."
Life
"The shortest distance between two points is a time line, a schedule, a map of your time, the itinerary for the rest of your life.Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list."
Time
"They all think men are obsolete. useless. as if we're just some sexual appendix."
Psychology
"Some stories, you use up. Others use you up."
Reflection
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