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"She said it was because one day I was going to have to go through a metamorphosis like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly and that scared me, so butterflies scared me."
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"Growth occurs when we discover how to remain authentically ourselves in the presence of potentially threatening things. Maturity is the possession of coping skills: we can take in our stride things that previously would have knocked us off course. We are less fragile, less easily shocked and hence more capable of engaging with situations as they really are."
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Personal Development

"No man can be skillful without first investing his time into relentless rehearsals."
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Personal Development

"Find answers in your weakness and surprise in your strength and always remember the golden rule every failure has HOPES."
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Personal Development

"The Larger A Purpose, The Bigger The Manifestation."
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Personal Development

"In order to make our gifts perfect, you need to work on yourself but it hurts."
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Personal Development

"Don't be too comfortable with employment discover yourself and see what you can achieve for yourself."
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Personal Development

"You are at liberty to develop yourself when you are self employed."
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Personal Development

"Vision is a strong tool for increase."
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Personal Development

"Rain touching our hand becomes a little bit salty! Man touching wisdom becomes a little bit wiser! More touches take more from the touched!"
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Personal Development

"When the grass is greener at other people's feet, it is not because the grass chose to take up that complexion. But it is because, they have deliberately irrigated it on regular accounts."
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"Pictures can be pretty deceptive."
Psychology

"I run my finger along the crease of the envelope, feel the weight of history inside. Wherever I'm going next, these are coming with me."
History

"If you could know going in that twenty-five years of love would break you in the end, would you risk it? Because isn't it inevitable? When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium."
Philosophy

"Why wasn't I nicer to Alice? When she has been nothing but sweet to me? When I actually like her? I know I should say something to her, but before I can find the words, she's tooting her horn and disappearing down the street.I wave until she turns the corner. And as I watch another person drive out of here to some better place, I understand exactly why I wasn't nicer."
Regret

"If I stay. If I live. It's up to me.All this business about medically induced comas is just doctor talk. It's not up to the doctors. It's not up to the absentee angels. It's not even up to God who, if He exists, is nowhere around right now. It's up to me."
Life

"Every fiction has its base in fact."
Knowledge

"I'm surrounded by people and feel alone."
Emotion

"Maybe he was overwhelmed, like I am overwhelmed, by that mysterious intersection where love meets luck, where fate meets will. Because he'd been waiting for her. And there she was."
Romance

"Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind. If that's what dying is like, I wouldn't mind that at all."
Life

"He gives me a little shrug, like, of course, why else? And at this point, I really have no right to be surprised by people's capacity for kindness and generosity, but still, I am. I'm floored every time."
Humanity
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