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"Take care not to welcome today the terrors that will make yesterday's demons look like angels."

"I moved out of my head office and went out of my mind."

"Let the world know what you live for...not what you fall for!"

"Reality may not be what you want it to be, but it is the reality you now must face. You can deny this reality and try to wish it away, or you can accept it and not waste any energy on wanting it to be different."


"I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper."

"Photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, something in the past that was caught in the film itself."

"Approachable people - 1. Use body language to their advantage. 2. Are open-minded to new people and new experiences. 3. Encourage others to feel better about themselves. 4. Are willing to be told not what they want to hear, but what they need to hear. 5. Provide an inviting aura that is warm and comforting. 6. Realize that authenticity and transparency earn trust. 7. Intuitively tune into the feelings and needs of others. 8. Are emotionally steady and respond appropriately when they sense awkwardness or discomfort in others. 9. Radiate happiness and curbs cynicism. 10. Provide a safe environment for others to express themselves. 11. Make others feel valued and appreciated. 12. Listen and consider other people's viewpoints and opinions."

"You never find riches on a well trodden path."

"It is only when you don't want to do something that you never get the time to do it."

"When I trust someone I do it without doubt or fear or reservation. And then I work on a Plan B."

"Political correctness' is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate."


"We're on a hunt, Cooper. When you're on a hunt, you do whatever it takes."

"It would be dreadfullyironic, I mused, if once I earned a soul, I forgot everything about being fey, including all my memories of her. That sort of ending seemedappropriately tragic; the smitten fey creature becomes human but forgets why he wanted to in the first place. Old fairy tales loved that sort of irony."

"What we do in life echoes in eternity. This is how greatness is made."

"The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind."

"Faith moves mountains, love transforms hearts."

"Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth."


"But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends."

"Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?"

"You have two choices... You can make the BEST of IT or you can let IT get the BEST of you!"

"My entire life, I've never been able to understand the concept of not being happy or excited when others were successful or had something good happen to them. It quite honestly is a concept that I cannot grasp."

"I wished at that moment that the Wests had killed me, it would have been a merciful release from the hell that DC Smith was putting me through. This barrage of questions by DC Smith and his heavy-handedness into this inquiry and his bullying barrack-room interrogation style of interviewing had left me feeling shamed."

"I said breathe. Not do a fish-out of-water imitation."

"My past is everything I failed to be."

"Leaders don't step on toes of dwarfs. They mount shoulders of giants."

"A photograph may speak to the photographer's envy or disappointment just as much as it may reveal his anger or disapproval. And even if a photograph records a joyous occasion, behind it there may still be more than a small measure of heartbreak on the part of the photographer. A small measure of heartbreak? One might think such a thing is impossible--if your heart is broken, then surely it is broken completely. Yet the truth is that we can live with a minor fault-line in the heart--most of us do, in one way or another."


"You can never know everything. Part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of knowledge lies in going on anyway."


"Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine."

"Those who incite violence have no business lecturing others about unity."

"If you think being straight means you're being discriminated against, you're probably misreading your privilege."

"Life is an open book, with the potential to become whatever can be comprehended."

"The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed."


"Rights" are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes."

"If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?"


"Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody."
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