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Quotes by Author
"If a person does not satisfy the need to self-actualization, his satisfaction and anxiety increases."
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"Sometimes others narcissism will take place of your happiness. Don't let it happen."
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"I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."
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"He wasn't what I'd thought he was; maybe he never had been. I wasn't what I'd thought I was, either."
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"If what you do doesn't make others better at what they do then you are not living up to your potential."
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"The next time you think you're perfect, try walking on water."
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"Who hasn't been told "love you?" I don't put much stock in such words because it's the "I" that gives "love you" its true essence and intimate meaning, so unless someone can bring themselves to say "I love you," don't subtract from the significance by saying something less."
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"Gossipmongers = Toxic Hearts Toxic Hearts = Bigot Souls."
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"Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do to take the permanence out of a breakup. And someone always takes it to mean more than it does, and then is hurt even more when, inevitably, said 'friendly' relationship is still a major step down from the previous relationship, and it's like breaking up all over again. But messier."
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"If one squinted in Cabeswater long enough, in the right way, one could see secrets dart between the trees. The shadows of horned animals that never appeared. The winking lights of another summer's fireflies. The rushing sound of many wings, the sound of a massive flock always out of sight. Magic."
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"Let me tell you a story. There was a student who asked his teacher, what is love? The teacher said go into the field and bring me the most beautiful flower. The student returned with no flower at hand and said, "I found the most beautiful flower in the field but I didn't pick it up for I might find a better one, but when I returned to the place, it was gone.We always look for the best in life. When we finally see it, we take it for granted and after some time start expecting a better one, not knowing that it's the best for us."
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"It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country."
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"If you would devote your time to an activity even if you didn't receive payment, you have found a key to your destiny."
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"Take care of the elderly people."
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"We can escape any hardship with hope in our heart."
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"To Him who has sense, a sign is enoughFor the heedless, however, a thousand expositions are not enough."
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"When man comes into the presence of God he will find, whether he wishes it or not, that all those things which seemed to make him so different from the men of other times, or even from his earlier self, have fallen off. He is back where he always was, where every man always is."
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"All great and successful people stayed alone with themselves to develop their gift."
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"Trust is like a two-way mirror, transparent on one side, with a blind dimness unable to see through on the other side."
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"Passion is finding something you're unwilling to live without."
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"A poet is an artist that paints pictures by mixing thought, imagination, and emotion with words."
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"May the New Year bring you new grace, new gladness and new glory."
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"What you think of about a nation or a situation is your self-expression and mind's reflection."
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"The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind that is willing to have its sense of mystery deepened by contact with reality, and its sense of reality deepened by contact with mystery."
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"Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in a power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability. Faiths, all faiths, are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand, something to which we are accountable. With faith we are accountable to each other, to ourselves, and to a higher truth. Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed. The church consists of a brotherhood of imperfect, simple souls wanting only to be a voice of compassion in a world spinning out of control."
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"I am unique...I play by a different set of rules I am not intimidated by anything."
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"When you anxiously await to emerge from deep darkness, you will realize the beauty of light."
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"Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek."
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"Your purpose, and its specific expressions, expands and accelerates as it becomes more similar to Nature's purpose. The tools you need to apply it you collect along the path in discovering what that is. Time is there to provide you with the "opportunities to find more creative responses to things like frustration, confusion and self-righteousness. As you gently, oh so gently and delicately, adjust to the requirements that exist in your actual circumstance, you are given the tools needed to surpass them."
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"You see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him."
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"I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time."
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"It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality."
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"God emptied out that first tomb so that He could turn around and empty out me."
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