"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."
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"The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions."
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"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."
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"All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live."
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"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."
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"To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality."
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"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."
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"The best is yet to come."
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"The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors."
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"Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude."
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"All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same."
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"Every raindrop that falls is accompanied by an angel, for even a raindrop is a manifestation of being."
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"Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art."
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"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together."
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"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."
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"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live."
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"I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't."
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"Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow."
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"It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts."
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"It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown."
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