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“If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter-for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.Beyond a wholesome discipline,be gentle with yourself.You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.”

“I talk to God, but the sky is empty”

“Your room is not your prison. You are.”

“I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am.”

“I lay and cried and began to feel again, to admit I was human, vulnerable, sensitive.”

[…]”it is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch one”