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“What does it take to be a good parent? Not much. Just everything. Absolutely everything.”
― Us Against You
― Us Against You
“Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be”
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“The universe is one being. Everything and everyone is interconnected through an invisible web of stories. Whether we are aware of it or not, we are all in a silent conversation. Do no harm. Practise compassion. And do not gossip behind anyone's back - not even seemingly innocent remark! The words that come out of our mouth do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time. One man's pain will hurt us all. One man's joy will make everyone smile.”
― The Forty Rules of Love
― The Forty Rules of Love
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
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“Because in real life, unlike in history books, stories come to us not in their entirety but in bits and pieces, broken segments and partial echoes, a full sentence here, a fragment there, a clue hidden in between. in life, unlike in books, we have to weave our stories out of threads as fine as the gossamer veins that run through a butterfly's wings.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
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