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"Perfection is a ridiculous goal because there is no such thing. Real beauty is what you are inside."
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"Embrace your weirdness. Some will adore you. Others won't. But who cares? Worry about loving yourself, not loving the idea of other people loving you."

"Be loved for who you are, for everything that constitutes you. Be loved for your core beliefs, your strengths and weaknesses, your admirable traits and troublesome baggage. Be loved for you, because anything less is not love at all."

"When there is a true or useful thing, there is sure to be a counterfeit."

"You don't need to be perfect, just be yourself."

"A human should realize himself and be responsible for himself if he wants to become the true person he is to be."

"A beautiful face cannot hide an ugly heart for long."

"We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained."

"Originality is the death of mediocrity."

"To be ordinary, be normal; to be original, be different; to be valuable, be unique; to be priceless, be yourself."

"An authentic life facing reality without mental equivocation is the simplest type of life."
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"The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not."

"LightThat's how I feel-like the winter-fringedbreeze might scoopme up into its wings,flyaway with me trappedin its feathered embrace.I am a snowflake.A wisp of eiderdown,liberatedfrom gravity. My bodyis light. Ephemeral.My head is light.I want to swaybeneaththe weight of air,dizzy with thought.Light filters throughmy closed eyelids.The sun,chasing shadows,tells me I'm notafloat in dreams."

"I love the way she feels inthe curve of my arm. I loveher unpretentious beauty,her intelligence, her nerve.But could I ever love her?The concept of falling in loveis completely foreign, somethingI can't bring myself to accept. Her hair pillows my cheek and her hand on my leg is warm. I care about you, Conner, and I hate to see you hurting. I want to respond but can'tfind the pretty words I need."

"Afraid to die loveless. Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen. Do you think hell is fiery? I don't. I think hell is frozen."

"What good would it do toshutter your windows, neverdream of rainbows or find hopein promises? Why choose to walk awayrather than hold your groundand fight for love?"

"Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless."
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