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"There is this book, Destroy All the Cars. It's about how caring about something deeply can also make you hate the world, because the world can be really disappointing. But don't worry-- it's also funny, too. Because that's how you get through all the disappointment, right? You have to find it all funny."
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"It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a calculus equation."
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"Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood."
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"Sniffing glue is a homeless nonbeliever's prayer."
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"The negative way of thinking based on constant complaints, strains, and objections of discontent steals our energy."
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"Words don't have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess."
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"Who has fear? The one who has greed has fear."
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"For how long are the people who seek for the approval of others keep putting their self-worth in the hands of people?"
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"Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness."
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"Physiology and Psychology are not at all separate from each other. Rather they are deeply intertwined."
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"Overriding the old information in your mind with new information is easy, but to actually go further than just putting a veneer over your old mindset is the way forward."
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"Doubt is an acceptable risk for happiness."
Psychology

"I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative."
Solitude

"What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread."
Philosophy

"Love doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third day.It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirt.It just has to be."
Love

"Well, I agree that 'trial and error' is a pretty pessimistic name for it. And maybe that's what it is most of the time. But I think the point is that it's not just try-error. Most of the time, it's try-error-try."
Perseverance

"Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah."
Life

"Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling. An unexpected downpour and I am just giving myself into it. Because what the fuck else can you do? Run for cover? Shriek and curse? No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it because if you can make yourself happy in the rain, then you're doing pretty alright in life."
Happiness

"We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time."
Awareness

"My life changes all the time, but books don't change. My reading of them changes-- I can bring new things to them each time. But the words are familiar words. The world is a place you've been before, and it welcomes you back."
Learning

"I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there."
Wisdom
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