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"Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid."
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Personal Development
"To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole."
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Personal Development
"We can all receive the gifts of our unique ancestry and harness them to forge a path of joy and healing."
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Personal Development
"Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living."
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Personal Development
"My mother said my father had a drop of dragon blood."Two drops. That, or a cock six feet long."
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Personal Development
"But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins."
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Personal Development
"One of the major contributions of the Protestant faith to the world is the culture of dignity of labour."
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Personal Development
"This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak-the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel, or of bread-winning."
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Personal Development
"Heritage was everything: it was a golden skeleton key, gleaming with power, able to get the wielder through any number of locked doors; it was the christening of the marriage bed with virgin blood on snow-white sheets; it was the benediction of a pristine pedigree, refined through ages of selective breeding and the occasional mercy culling.It was life, and death, and all that spanned between.It was his birthright."
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Personal Development
"A plaited link exists between every person and his or her ancestors, not simply through genealogical records, but in the same manner that the soul of a child, from which we sprang from, traces a direct connection to the matured soul of the adult."
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"What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else."
Life
"Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning."
Life
"Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself."
Life
"Writer's block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows."
Creativity
"All religions are true but none are literal."
Spiritual
"The experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes."
Philosophy
"When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its course, you will find that you have lived a model human life, after all."
Life
"What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects."
Education
"I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave."
Money
"There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call "atheists," and those who think they are facts are "religious." Which group really gets the message?"
Belief
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