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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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"Stop focusing so much on what is on the outside and start getting to know yourself better on the inside. Your true purpose in life lies in your inner positive voices."
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Personal Development
"Don't behave like your heart and mind are strangers to you; they are yours, don't depend on others to understand them, you got to understand them."
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Personal Development
"Never forget to be someone even when you get lost in the wildness of a crowd."
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Personal Development
"Appreciate yourself for who you're not for what you're."
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Personal Development
"A true swarthi (interested in the Self) will become the absolute Self! This is considered paraartha (for the non-Self). A swarthi will attain the 'Self'."
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Personal Development
"Are you what others say and think you are? Or are you who you are regardless of what others say and think?"
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Personal Development
"Always be true to yourself, you matter the most."
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Personal Development
"Once I thought it delightful and astonishing to find a present so big that it only went halfway into the stocking. Now I am delighted and astonished every morning to find a present so big that it takes two stockings to hold it, and then leaves a great deal outside; it is the large and preposterous present of myself."
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Personal Development
"Who are you? What are you? Why are you?"
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Personal Development
"Empowerment comes from self-realization and recognition of our internal gifts, which we already have."
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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."
Self
"I know that things get worse before they get better because that's what my psychiatrist says, but this is a worse that feels too big."
Mental Health
"My grandfather was crying. The kind of quiet that is quiet and a secret. The kind of crying that only I noticed. I thought about him going into my mom's room when she was little and hitting my mom and holding up her report card and saying that her bad grades would never happen again. And I think now that maybe he meant my older brother. Or my sister. Or me. That he would make sure that he was the one to work in a mill. I don't know if that's good or bad. I don't know if it's better to have your kids be happy and not go to college. I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure she has a better life than you do. I just don't know."
Family
"I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love."
Life
"She hated everything her parents loved."
Rebellion
"It's much easier not to know things sometimes."
Awareness
"She even told me how to treat a girl on a date, which was very interesting. She said that with a girl like Mary Elizabeth, you shouldn't tell her she looks pretty. You should tell her how nice her outfit is because her outfit is her choice whereas her face isn't. She also said that with some girls, you should do things like open car doors and buy flowers, but with Mary Elizabeth (especially since it's the Sadie Hawkins' dance), I shouldn't do that. So, I asked her what I should do, and she said that I should ask a lot of questions and not mind when Mary Elizabeth doesn't stop talking. I said that it didn't sound very democratic, but Sam said she does it all the time with boys."
Courtship
"Please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you."
Reassurance
"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."
Validation
"I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why."
Empathy
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