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Quotes by Author
"Your destiny is your responsibility."
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"I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because there's nothing I can do about hurting you: You're too invested, so just please let me do that, okay?"I'm going to go to my room and read for awhile, okay? I'm fine. I really am fine: I just want to go read for a while."
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"Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error."
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"I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you."
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"Positive simply means unifying energies, while negative simply means separating energies. It's not about what's good or bad, right or wrong. It's about embracing what feels good and brings us closer to peace."
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"Preserve the spirit of a 'lost' age, when time moved slower."
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"An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face."
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"Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me."
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"If you have a ministry, dedicate yourself to it, do everything with love and with a clean heart."
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"I can only begin the process of saving myself when I surrender to the reality that I can't. And what greater place to surrender that reality than to an infant who surrendered Himself to me so that I might surrender myself to Him."
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"Peace never hurries. To rush or force is contradictory to the very essence of peace."
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"Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing for the dawn of answers."
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"Who are you without your labels and attachments to the issues you are passionate about? Remove the emotions, remove the beliefs and associations, and simply focus on the rational and practical applications that promote peaceful progression."
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"Innovation is a progress, and progress in simplicity."
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"Putting a book together is interesting and exhilarating. It is sufficiently difficult and complex and it engages all your intelligence. It is life at its most free. Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting; you may not let it rip. It is life at its most free, if you are fortunate enough to be able to try it, because you select your materials, invent your task, and pace yourself."
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"On a recent business trip, I reunited with a friend I had not seen in twenty years. After having a lovely lunch meeting, we came out of the restaurant to walk towards the parking lot. He automatically moved me to the inside of the sidewalk as he walked along the curbside. His orientational awareness illustrated a chivalrous gesture of protection and respect which impressed me greatly."
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"New thinking doesn't mean shuffling your old thoughts around; it means getting rid of the old and implementing the new. That way your, "I can't" become "I can!" and "I did!"
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"Once your character is poured with vigor and your attitude radiates confidence, there is no power in any external force to have any form of authority over you."
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"You're unstoppable not because you're stronger than your challenges/competitors. It's because you're consistent. You won't quit easily!!!"
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"The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day."
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"I invite each of you to let go of your fears for just one day and say YES to life, say YES to love, say YES to You! You can always go back to saying 'no' another day."
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"Curley's wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face. She was pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young. Now her rouged cheeks and reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly. The curls, tiny little sausages, were spread on the hay behind her head and her lips were parted."
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"If you can hear the birds singing, you're in the right place."
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"No work is so important you have to do it."
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"Our MANDATE at Blackhawk is to create mega-millionaires. Period. More wealth for our clients, more power for all of us ...the People."
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"Begin each day with the hope of ending it with the bests of your steps. Plan the day ahead and ensure that the plans are worthy of ensuring your dreams are achieved. Get started."
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"To be great, practice simplicity and express humility."
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"Delayed gratification is what makes a man."
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"Writing is the dancing of words, sometimes it is beautiful and meaningful, sometimes it is not."
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"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"
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"Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."
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