"If the culture doesn't work, don't buy it."
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"Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another"
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"It’s natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature."
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"Well, the truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time–then you might not be as ambitious as you are."
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"These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. There were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is no substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have."
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"We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives."
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"What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats."
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"We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said." Love is the only rational act."
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"Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else."
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"My contention is that as long as you have other faculties-the emotional, psychological, intuitive faculties-you haven't lost yourself or even diminished yourself. Don't be ashamed when you're physically limited or dysfunctional; don't think that you're any less because of your condition. In fact, I feel I am even more myself than I was before I got this illness because I have been able to transcend many of the psychological and emotional limitations I had before I developed ALS."
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"Build a little community of those you love and who love you"
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"If we can remember the feeling of love we once had, we can die without ever going away."
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"And, in addition to all the miseries, the young are not wise. They have very little understanding about life. Who wants to live every day when you don't know what's going on? When people are manipulating you, telling you to buy this perfume and you'll be beautiful, or this pair of jeans and you'll be sexy-and you believe them! It's such nonsense."
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"The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live."
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"We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people."
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"When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions."
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"Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others."
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"Once you learn how to die you learn how to live."
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"Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward."
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"One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive."
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