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"I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am."
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"If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the painful process of finding it."

"But for better or worse, I am not motivated by kindness."

"We must design how we wish to be perceived, and then we must work even harder to continuously recreate and re-evaluate that perception."

"Cut the connection between your clothes and your beliefs, because clothes will not make you something, it won't make you honest or dishonest, good or bad! Your essence will not change because of what you wear!"

"We must carefully cultivate the voice that speaks to us because an internal voice is the ultimate narrator of our charming and delightful personal story or the documentarian of our tragic and disgraceful plotlines. Stories that we tell ourselves become our functional reality, which format structures the concourse of the nested emotional control panel that guides and girds us through the din of the present."

"Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention."

"When you give your mind, body, and heart the message that you are worth the effort of being conscious, miraculous things start to happen."

"Look well into thyself there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there."
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"Then, I started running. And everything was as good as it could be."

"If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing or you can look three people down and they love that song that you love. It is living proof that you are not alone."

"I feel great! I really mean it. I have to remember this for the next time I'm having a terrible week. Have you ever done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don't know why. I try to remind myself when I feel great like this that there will be another terrible week coming someday, so I should store up as many great details as I can, so during the next terrible week, I can remember those details and believe that I'll feel great again. It doesn't work a lot, but I think it's very important to try."

"I hate you.'My sister said it different than she said it to my dad. She meant it with me. She really did.'I love you,' was all I could say in return."

"I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have. I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with people even if they could have. I need to know that these people exist."

"I'm not saying she was lying to me, but she just acted so different before I got to know her, and if she really isn't like what she was at the beginning, I wish she could have just said so."

"And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend."

"I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense."
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