“Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.”
― Life Is Tremendous: Enthusiasm Makes the Difference!
― Life Is Tremendous: Enthusiasm Makes the Difference!
“Love is being honest with yourself at all times
being honest with the other person at all times
telling, listening, respecting the truth
and never pretending
Love is the source of reality”
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being honest with the other person at all times
telling, listening, respecting the truth
and never pretending
Love is the source of reality”
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“People are always complaining that life's not fair, but that simply isn't true. Life is extraordinarily fair. It's just not centered on you.”
― A River Worth Riding
― A River Worth Riding
“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
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“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
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