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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics."
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"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
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"I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free."
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"I like being in the workforce; it keeps me grounded."
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"You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker."
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"I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world."
Being


"All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition."
Inferiority


"Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue."
Action


"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity."
Strength


"Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body."
Body


"No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first."
Love


"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped."
Life


"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears."
Travel


"Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce."
Power


"Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances."
Mistake
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