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"People who love themselves, don't hurt other people. People who love themselves have no reason to ever judge another person on looks. There is simply no need. People who love themselves no longer look at beauty on a sliding scale or as a competition. There is nobody more beautiful or less beautiful than anyone else, including themselves. People who love themselves no longer see fat or skinny, tall or short, fair or dark skin, gay or straight, strong or weak. They only see people. Beautiful, beautiful people."
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"The more you read the gospel, the more you understand God."
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"Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night's sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too."
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"People naturally impose a narrative story-line upon their experiences. Autobiographical writing allows a person to cast their experiences into a narrative thread and organize their thoughts based not upon conjecture but with applied reason."
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"While it's five in the morning here, it's also five in the evening somewhere in China-proving that incompatible truths make perfect sense when seen with global perspective."
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"Every one needs someone and there is someone for everyone."
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"Spirituality is the strength of being."
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"I smell him in intervals, in varieties, in ways I don't quite understand."
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"If you have trouble getting motivated always remember that time is going to pass either way and that eventually regret is going to make its way around."
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"You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission."
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"There's no single effort more radical in it's potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children."
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"It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book."
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"I don't mind admitting that I, too, have watched Hilton undergoing the sexual act. I phrase it as crudely as that because it was one of the least erotic such sequences I have ever seen. She seemed to know what was expected of her and to manifest some hard-won expertise, but I could almost have believed that she was drugged. At no point did her facial expression match even the simulacrum of lovemaking."
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"Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the time."
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"Illiteracy breeds more ignorance than you can ever imagine."
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"Detachment is being apathetic or aloof to other people, while un-attachment is acknowledging and honoring other people, while choosing not to let them influence your emotional well being. Detached would mean I do not care, while un-attached means I care, although I am not going to alter my emotional state due to your emotions, words, or actions."
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"Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful."
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"What is true for you?What makes your heart smile?When do you feel most yourself?What do you love to do?Ask yourself these questions, and live your life, as best you can,in accordance with the answers.This is how you taste happiness.This is how you love yourself. This is how you grow."
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"There are many ways in which life's little candle can be snuffed out. A cold wind pursues us all."
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"You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd."
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"Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess."
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"Our spiritual character is formed as much by what we endure and what is taken from us as it is by our achievements and our conscious choices."
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"He wasn't a whole person any longer, but only half of something not yet made."
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"It is important to view current events through Christ-like eyes."
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"First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas."
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"One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier."
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"It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company."
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"In order for you to receive, someone else has to give. That's called sacrifice."
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"Refusing someone's kind words can cause the one doing the complimenting to feel bad. Not only might they regret trying to be nice, but you may have cut off your chances of being complimented by them ever again. Being humble is one thing; being rude is another. Practice receiving compliments with grace, dignity, appreciation, and gratitude. The perfect response to a fine compliment is simply, "Thank you!"
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