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"There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves."
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"I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing."
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"A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary."
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"It's difficult to accept full responsibility and apportion blame at the same time " you have to choose one."
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"The meditation technique itself cultivate precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go - qualities that are innate within us."
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"What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading."
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"Fornication deprives a person of his spiritual covering."
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"I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable."
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"Never lose hope. Never lose faith."
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"Black Girls. Strive to be a woman of substance! Don't solely allow your big butt, thick thighs, wide hips, large breasts, and overall good looks to define you as a woman. Your looks alone shouldn't define who you are. What more do you have to offer? What is your TRUE character? How is your attitude? What have you accomplished? Do you have respect for yourself? What do you represent? Everywhere you look, there's another beautiful, stunning, fine looking sista. Stand out from the rest and dare to be different! Your good looks should only be a bonus, not the main factor. #RealTalk"
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"I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances."
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"Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here."
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"Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses."
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"People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story."
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"I prefer to surround myself with people who reveal their imperfection, rather than people who choose to fake perfection."
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"Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance."
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"The Seeking of the Master. Musa Najib was asked why he charged a fee from those who came to his sessions; and why he often did not even address his audience. He said: 'I charge for this object lesson: people believe that knowledge must be given freely, and consequently mistake everything which is free for knowledge. I do not always lecture because, among Sufis, "The Master finds the pupil. The pupil has to be physically present: but he may be absent in every other sense. When I discern that a pupil is "present then I "find him, for then his inner call is audible to me, even if it is silent to him.' 'Seek and you will be found."
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"I've said it before and I'll say it again, my lord. You are an evil man."
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"Happy people have everything to give."
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"Anger is the fuel of resentment which can burn for a lifetime."
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"Say to yourself, I am perfect, the way I am. Say to yourself, I am beautiful the way I am. Say to yourself, those who do not accept me the way I am, do not deserve me in their life."
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"Your memory straddles my mind."
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"When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do."
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"You are only susceptible to break easily due to occasionally bends if you are inflexible."
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"I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."
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"Love is like skydiving without a parachute."
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"We should responsibly carry out the business that God has assigned for us to do."
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"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise."
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"At networking events, I am a heat-seeking missile for happy, vibrant people. With experience and practice, you can develop a sixth sense about whom to approach and of whom to be wary. I'm drawn to people with positive energy. I would rather be lifted up than pulled down. Wouldn't you?"
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"The earth reflects the sky and the sky meets the earth and, every now and then, if we're lucky, we have a moment to see how small we are."
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"Conflicts may create unfathomable distances."
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"I realized the universe had consumed my whole entity with its divine sensation of eternal bliss. All I could consciously perceive in that state of mind was absolute oneness. I felt being one with the banyan tree, under which I was sitting. I felt one with the corns in the field. I felt one with the sky and the clouds in it. As if everything was me, and I was everything. I didn't have any perception of time or space. All that there was, was an all- pervading eternity " a state of non-dualism."
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