"It's really weird how your life changes. Tonight I'm drinking water. Four years ago? Opium. Night and day, you know?"
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"The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives."
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"Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops."
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"I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think."
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"Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding."
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"No one can be transferred from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God without a great battle and by the good fight of faith. No one receives full light in a single day. Great faithfulness is required for us to receive more light."
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"Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest."
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"Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems."
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"Every experience in life changes the brain's anatomy."
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"Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process."
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"To catch a wave, to stand up - it was just life-changing. There was nothing that even came close. I quit playing all other sports - by the time I was eleven, they were toast."
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"When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself."
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"Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want."
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"All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history."
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"It wasn't until I began to work on my inner life and know myself that my life changed. Success really does begin within. The size and quality of your outer life is only limited by the size and quality of your inner life."
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"If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves."
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"As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes."
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"The cross of Christ only triumphs in the breast of believers over the devil and the flesh, sin and sinners, when their eyes are directed to the power of His Resurrection."
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"Whenever Roosevelt (Theodore) expected a visitor, he sat up late the night before, reading up on the subject in which he knew his guest was particularly interested. For Roosevelt knew, all the leaders royal road to a person's heart is to talk about the things he or she treasures most."
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"When I woke the next morning in my room at White's Motel, I showered and stood naked in front of the mirror, watching myself solemnly brush my teeth. I tried to feel something like excitement but came up only with a morose unease. Every now and then I could see myself-truly see myself-and a sentence would come to me, thundering like a god into my head, and as I saw myself then in front of that tarnished mirror what came was 'the woman with the hole in her heart'. That was me."
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