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"Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself--free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on."
"To succeed in this new world, we will have to learn, first, who we are. Few people, even highly successful people, can answer the questions, Do you know what you're good at? Do you know what you need to learn so that you get the full benefit of your strengths? Few have even asked themselves these questions."
"As the proportion of people reaching higher states of consciousness increases, this inertia will decrease, and at the same time a supportive momentum in the new direction will start building up."
"The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build."
"People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun."
"You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you."
"My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth."
"We must now examine whether just people also live better and are happier than unjust ones. I think it's clear already that this is so, but we must look into it further, since the argument concerns no ordinary topic, but the way we ought to live."
"The people have allowed me to - they've respected my choice of wanting to be like, a little, you know, a baby alchemist, and just trying to mix different cultures together and things that I think are interesting."
"TThe most effective way to save the threatened and decimated natural world is to cause people to fall in love with it again, with its beauty and its reality."
"I cannot think of anything characteristically American that was not produced by toil. I cannot think of any American man or woman preeminent in the history of our nation who did not reach their place through toil. I cannot think of anything that represents the American people as a whole so adequately as honest work."
"Some people have certain beliefs, and I have my own belief, and we can agree to disagree on certain things."
"We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community."
"I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'"
"Don't decide on a dog based on looks either, much like with people, looks and first impressions can be deceiving."
"Why do people think being with someone is the answer to everything?"
"I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules."
"I'm glad I'm funny. I'm glad I make people happy, because that's very important. But I'm proud to be known as a kind person."
"I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it."
"If you want to run for Prime Minister, you can. If you don't, that's wonderful, too. Shave your armpits, don't shave them, wear flats one day, heels the next. These things are so irrelevant and surface to what it is all really about, and I wish people wouldn't get caught up in that. We want to empower women to do exactly what they want, to be true to themselves, to have the opportunities to develop."
