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"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."
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"You shall not be afraid of the adversary. God will be your strong fortress."
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"11 Ways to Be More Engaged - 1. Care about others. 2. Be 100 percent in the moment. 3. Keep focus on the person you are serving. 4. Try to get involved, engaged, and interactive. 5. Show interest in what matters to other people by listening, acknowledging, and responding. 6. Arrive in the moment anticipating creating a valuable interaction for yourself and others. 7. Move towards the things that inspire you and provide a sense of joy and connection. 8. Reconnect with the essence of yourself and be grounded in that essential relationship. 9. Maintain eye contact and deliver the non-verbal cues that you are fully with the other person. 10. Limit distractions- close the door, silence your phone, hold calls, put tasks aside, etc. 11. Show up to the moment being your best and giving your best."
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"Most people have an abundance of dreams, but lack the courage to follow them. Help them find that courage by inspiring them with yours."
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"Learn to love yourself for you cannot give to others what you do not possess."
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"Hayden shouts, "To the new Teen Uprising!"
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"Accept the past as the past and realize that each new day you are a new person who doesn't need to carry old baggage into the new day with you. It's amazing how many people ruin the beauty of today with the sorrows of yesterday. Yesterday doesn't exist anymore! For example, if ever I feel foolish or guilty about something I've done, I learn from it and attempt to do better the next time. Shame or guilt serves no one. Such feelings actually keep us down, often lowering the vibrations of those around us, as well. Living in the present moment is the recurring baptism of the soul, forever purifying every new day with a new you."
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"It was more exciting to get that first book published, I think."
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"I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church."
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"I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys."
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"Health makes good propaganda."
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"She really was pretty, for a grown-up person, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what I would have done if she had smiled at me like that now: whether I would have handed my mind or my heart or my identify to her for the asking, as my father did."
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"He was incapable of untruth; never tampered with a fact; never altered a disagreeable word to suit the pleasure or convenience of any mortal being, least of all his own children, who, sprung from his loins, should be aware from childhood that life is difficult; facts uncompromising; and the passage to that fabled land where our brightest hopes are extinguished, our frail barks founder in darkness (here Mr. Ramsay would straighten his back and narrow his little blue eyes upon the horizon), one that needs, above all, courage, truth, and the power to endure."
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"Christians should use their prosperity for the glory of the kingdom of God."
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"Free yourself from fruitlessly worrying about things you can't control and put your energy towards the things you can. Seize the day and take effective action on things you can change."
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"I'm not a saint! Thanks God!"
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"Idle hands are the devils greatest tools. But it'll be good to notice that the tools sharpened by idle heads. You are idle because that's the job your mind gave you!"
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"For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough."
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"I wonder if anyone gets through childhood without being broken. I certainly did not."
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"Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own."
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"Every belief that you hold manifests itself in some manner by either causing you to take some form of action or by preventing you from taking action. If you don't believe something is possible, you won't even attempt it."
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"If you Love all Life you observe, you will observe all Life will Love."
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"I'm impressed you left to keep everyone safe. He tenderly massaged the area above my hipbone with his right thumb.'I've seen vampire men cry and piss their pants after one hour in the sewers by themselves. You've been walking most of the day and all alone."
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"Light a campfire and everyone's a storyteller."
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"He was abusing Big Brother, he was denouncing the dictatorship of the Party, he was demanding the immediate conclusion of peace with Eurasia, he was advocating freedom of speech, freedom of the Press, freedom of assembly, freedom of thought, he was crying hysterically that the revolution had been betrayed - and all this in rapid polysyllabic speech which was a sort of parody of the habitual style of the orators of the Party, and even contained Newspeak words: more Newspeak words, indeed, than any Party member would normally use in real life."
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"Dear World,I exist.Deal with it."
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"It is not your beautiful face or soft skin that kills me, it is your simplicity and being you."
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"Think about the people in your life with whom you have the most engaging dialogue-the ones who will listen to you and consider your opinions regardless of the topic. They'll stop whatever they are doing to give you their full attention. They become completely present and hear you."
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"Relationships are built on trust."
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"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."
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"The essential war within, and the cause of suffering, begins with the presumption that yearning, impulse and curiosity, desire and question, exist so as to end them. To attain, to acquire, to answer."
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"Do not go gentle into that good night, rage, rage against the dying of the light."
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"In reality, when you feel depressed, lonely, betrayed, or any unwanted feelings, this is an important moment on the spiritual path. This is when real transformation can take place."
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"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."
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"Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood."
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