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"I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were there upon waking. Our family has a problem with what they called delayed gratification. We want what we want when we want it, and we always want it now."
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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."
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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"
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"And you know the darkness beyond despair, just as intimately as you know the soaring heights. Because in this and all universes, there is balance. You can't have the one without facing the other. And sometimes you think you can take it because the joy is worth the despair, and sometimes you know you can't take it and how did you ever think you could? And there is the dance; strength and weakness, confidence and desolation."
"And I think, if thoughts are worth a penny, how much less promises must be worth. Especially the ones you're likely to break."
"The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible."
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