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"I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better."
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"We are all 'right' if we are being truly ourselves.... that is the best we can be in each moment, until we learn more..."
"Smile out loud! Make them wonder."
"I told myself all sorts of lies, standing there at the bar, but I could not move. And this was partly because I knew that it did not really matter anymore; it did not even matter if I never spoke to Giovanni again; for they had become visible, as visible as the wafers on the shirt of the flaming princess, they stormed all over me, my awakening, my insistent possibilities."
"Others may not understand your joy and contentment because of your certainty about who you are and why you exist. Don't waste your time to explain."
"I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself."
"I am learning to accept everything about myself,even the part of me that struggles to accept everything about myself."
"Every penny NOT spent on investing in yourself (after basic needs of course) may be a wasted future opportunity from missing learns and connects."
"Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you."
"Your main target should be to find and develop your own unique individuality and not let your focus be sidetracked and drift to external things."
"To you wives who are constantly complaining and see only the dark side of life, and feel that you are unloved and unwanted, look into your own hearts and minds. If there is something wrong, turn about. Put a smile on your faces. Make yourselves more attractive. Brighten your outlook."
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"I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water."
"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."
"To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision."
"It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable."
"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning."
"I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself."
"I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true."
"I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'"
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