"Insanity is arguing with reality."
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"The world begins with what we believe."
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"Mind is infinitely creative. And when it's not stuck, that's where the joy comes from. Something happens, and the way we think about it, understand it, see it, is actually hilarious, whereas before it used to depress us."
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"For me, the future lives only here in my mind, as thoughts and images, just as the past does, and I love those thoughts and the world that it produces. I am entirely optimistic about the future."
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"The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself."
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"If I'm okay with dying, my son is at least as enlightened as that. If I'm okay with my cancer, my son is at least as enlightened as I am."
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"When you don't believe something, you can't make yourself believe it. There's nothing you can do to believe it again. You either believe it or you don't."
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"We all begin to do what we can do, just like we're doing now, to clean up the planet and to find solutions rather than fight. It just happens everywhere."
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"I think our children are afraid to die because we're afraid to die."
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"It takes only one person to have a successful relationship."
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"I was clinically depressed. I was paranoid. I was agoraphobic. I would have days at a time of not being able to even bathe or brush my teeth."
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"As far as intellect, what else is there? Without intellect, no story and no world."
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"I shouldn't steal in this world."
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"One morning as I lay sleeping on the floor, a cockroach crawled over my foot. And I opened my eyes out of this dead sleep - about a 43-year sleep - and in place of all that darkness was a joy that I can't describe."
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"I was full of rage. My self-esteem was so low that I actually slept on the floor every night, because I didn't believe I deserved a bed to sleep in."
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"That's huge: just to clean up one ecosystem."
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"It's just a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself."
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"We all think we have our personal favorites. But when I say, "People shouldn't steal - is it true?" Everyone in a room of, let's say, a thousand people all raise their hands and say, "That's true.""
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"I am the perpetrator of my suffering - but only all of it."
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"Ultimately, I am all I can know."
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