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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
Personal Development

"Life and death is not a do-it-yourself project."

"Life becomes difficult when out of sync with your heart-felt desires."

"The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I."

"God is not ecstatic about the lack you are experiencing; He is not delightful over your failures, He is not happy about your stagnancy."

"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."

"To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!"
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"The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye."

"I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success."

"You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable."

"My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten."

"I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house."

"I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes."

"People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy."

"No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant."
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