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"Look Beyond Motherhood and Parenting, Focus on the uniqueness of every Child."


"I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments."

"It's shameful for a devil to be good."

"Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life."


"It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of."

"Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?"

"I think we might've met in a past life. You know, one of those you pass and think, wow you're kind of beautiful. Just one of those."

"Some of us fought back with guns and assassinations. Others fought back with a little hot dog stand on the corner."

"Truth as a logic structure is closer to simple and the further away from simple you get, the deeper and more nuanced an explanation will become until you reach a point where the energy is so high that no explanation is possible."

"Trust holds fast, standing firm until deliverance arrives or a solution is found."

"Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect?I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons."

"Assuming is a form of giving away your power to another regarding an outcome that concerns you."

"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect."

"Each moment cancels the last. In the end there is nothing, not even the end."

"In a way it scared me, having a summer of experiences and feelings that belonged to me alone. What happened in front of my friends felt read. What happened to me by myself felt partly dreamed, partly imagined, definitely shifted and warped by own fears and wants. And who knows? Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens."

"The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings?"

"Learning is a great experience of life."

"Meditation is the energy of the mind."

"Take down the walls."

"Decode the message of failure and enjoy the fortune thereof."


"Mental understanding cannot change our life, unless it becomes real understanding."

"There is much to discover that's not on the back cover!"

"I believe we are the ones who hurt ourselves the most, by how we receive, by how we perceive."

"Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been."

"The only way to end grief was to go through it."


"You will be able to live as your authentic self when you find that infinite source of energy and that mind, bright and shining like the sun. Then you won't need to become anyone other than yourself. You won't need to depend on externals for your health and happiness, and you won't need to look outside yourself to find passion and hope for life."


"I have a scar-a faint gouge in my knee from when I fell down on the sidewalk as a child. It's always seemed stupid to me that none of the pain I've experienced has left a visible mark; sometimes, without a way to prove it to myself. I began to doubt that I had lied through it at all, with the memories becoming hazy over time. I want to have some kind of reminder that while wounds heal, they don't disappear forever- I carry them everywhere, always, and that is the way of things, the way of scars.That is what this tattoo will be, for me: a scar. And it seems fitting that it should document the worst memory of pain I have."

"Socialists seem to think George Orwell's 1984 is a suggestion, or at least are unashamed of mimicking the methods of the totalitarian state Orwell depicted. Libertarians know it to be a warning, and a government that micro-manages all aspects of humanity an intolerable reality."

"This world has need of song and sword."

"Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart."

"In the void, there is no distinction of east and west."Gwen blinked slightly at that. "I know all of those words, and yet when strung together like that I have no idea what they mean."

"Gavin's Law: Live to start. Start to live."

"But her grandmother had never suggested she could think the same of Scarlet. You'll be fine, she always said, after a skinned knee, after a broken arm, after her first youthfull heartbreak. You'll be fine, because you're strong, like me."

"It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all."
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