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“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away. Most of this “something” cannot be seen or heard or numbered or scientifically detected or counted. It’s what we leave in the minds of other people and what they leave in ours. Memory. The census doesn’t count it. Nothing counts without it.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“Machines and relatives get most of the yelling. But never trees. As for people, well, the Solomon islanders may have a point. Yelling at living thing does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“I may be wrong”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“Knowledge is meaningful only if it is reflected in action. The human race has found out the hard way that we are what we do, not just what we think.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“Life will examine us continually to see if we have understood and have practiced what we were taught that first year of school.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.”
― Barry Goldwater

“I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? ”
― Barry Goldwater

“This is the gift random strangers can give you, Phoebe is realizing - the freedom to say or be anything around them. Because who cares? He doesn't know her, will never know her.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People