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"You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?"
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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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"The world is full of vanities."
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"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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"Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child."
Parenting
"Every now and then, i worry about people in the third world countries. and then i figure if they all started having sex, their lives would be considerably brighter."
Humor
"For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their writers all the time. We know plenty about Goethe and Charles Dickens from what they chose to tell, even though they have been dead for years."
Literature
"She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life."
Love
"It was easier for girls. They could say This hurts, or I don't like how this feels, and have the complaint be socially acceptable. Boys, though, didn't speak that language. They didn't learn it as children and they didn't manage to pick it up as adults, either."
Society
"When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right."
Freedom
"If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?"
Philosophy
"When you love someone you let them take care of you."
Love
"Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect."
Relationship
"When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you."
Dreams
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