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"Who was I fooling, telling my heart to quiet its beautiful song so I could march in the parade of conformity? My biggest fool was me."
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"It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way."
"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."
"Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home. It was better never to have been born-never to have wanted anything, never to have hoped for anything."
"Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be."
"I enjoy being a lemming,we line up to do everything together."
"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
"Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going."
"The problem with the 'herd' is that our voice is never 'heard'."
"Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people."
"Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind."
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"Apathy is, too often, a result of overexposure to stressful, highly emotional situations. To rekindle empathy, sometimes we need some space. It's okay to walk away so that you can feel love for someone again. Sometimes for a moment. Sometimes forever."
"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."
"A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain, not the lack of it."
"At the end of the day, your relationships with the people in your life will be greater assets than any material things. Take time. Be present. You'll thank yourself for it later."
"Amazing relationships aren't about making one perfect choice in your choice of partner. They're about the infinite amount of choices you make in each conflict, each conversation, and each moment to open yourself and to stay open, even when it's hard."
"If you ate nails, your stomach would hurt, and it's a good thing that it would. Eating nails is deadly, thus the pain is helpful. Like this, sadness, anger, and anxiety are not to be feared or shamed, but listened to and decoded."
"It is not the path that you have trouble finding. You knew your path since your first daydream. It's courage you're searching for - courage to trust yourself and stop searching for a travel partner who knows better than you where to go. And courage is only built in action."
"Don't let what you thought you were yesterday keep you from becoming what you're meant to be today."
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