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The only reason we don’t open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don’t feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else’s eyes.
Pema Chödrön

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Martin Luther King

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The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you they need you in theirs.
Oscar Wilde

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Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep.
Charles M. Schulz

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Maybe the modern version of introspection is the sum total of all those highly individualized choices that we make about the material content of our lives.
Malcolm Gladwell and other cultural mavens on how we shape ourselves through brands

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Just remember that, sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are.
John Green

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I mean, I have
the feeling that
something in my
mind is poisoning
everything
else.
Vladimir Nabokov

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And that is how
change happens.
One gesture.
One person.
One moment at a time.
Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

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But don’t you know
that only fools are
satisfied?
Billy Joel - Vienna

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There’s things that happen in a person’s life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there’s no forgetting them.
John Boyne

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You have to say, “I’m gonna do this, and nobody’s gonna stop me!” But you have to believe that, you can’t just say it. It might take really a long time, because people never say you’re good at first. Or if they do, you’re a flash in the pan and it’s over.

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Memory… is
the diary that
we all carry
about with
us.
Oscar Wilde

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It’s not the changes that
will break your heart;
it’s that tug of
familiarity.
Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

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The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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If you’re part of a record company, you’re a manufactured product. It doesn’t mean that you’re not talented.
Kylie Minogue
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