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"I don't need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would."
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"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."

"Appreciate yourself for who you're not for what you're."

"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'."

"Are you what others say and think you are? Or are you who you are regardless of what others say and think?"

"Always be true to yourself, you matter the most."

"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."

"Who are you? What are you? Why are you?"

"Empowerment comes from self-realization and recognition of our internal gifts, which we already have."
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"I am slowly coming to the conclusion that it's more important to learn to work with what you've got, under the circumstances you've been given, than wishing for different ones."

"I think I'm learningthat sometimes the bravest thing is not to face the world,but to turn away from it."

"People keep asking what I do for a living and I keep saying that I don't believe in making a living. That it's a concept that has been twisted. I tell them I believe in making a life and money is a distracting object if there's anything left at the end of the day and I just want to go on well. Make it through the day. So I smile and raise my glass and they laugh and take my hand, saying here's to the youth, pointing at me. And I might just be youngand naivefor I still believe in the freedom of choiceof how to spend your life.So they toast to the youth, who still think she's free, and that's all fine by me."

"6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days,and I still don't know which month it was thenor what day it is now.Blurred out linesfrom hangovers to coffeeanother vagabond lost to love."

"I just wish you could see my demons for what they are, and lay here beside me on the floor. No words. Just your presence."

"I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem.Watch me burn.Love always, Charlotte."
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