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"I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes - it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'Well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all."
"You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been."
"Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates."
"If you have, give. If you learn, teach."
"The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry."
"Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity."
"We are only as blind as we want to be."
"The truth is you never can leave home. You take it with you everywhere you go. It's under your skin. It moves the tongue or slows it, colors the thinking, impedes upon the logic."
"I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."
"In the 16th century, [Niccolò] Machiavelli - in an attempt to get back in the good graces of the powerful - wrote a slim volume called The Prince. In that book he showed the powers that be how to control the people. That book is a statement: separate and rule, divide and conquer. That's five hundred years ago and it still works, because we allow ourselves to be lead around with holes through our noses."
"No not me go find someone else to bring down"
"Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you... yet, someone survived... You can do anything you choose to do."
"The honorary duty of a human being is to love."
"What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain."
"Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between."
"There is no place where God is not."
"Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive."
"Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you’re just stretching your soul."
"As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul and body of our patients, their families and ourselves. They may not remember your name but they will never forget the way you made them feel."
"Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life."