I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

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To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before.

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Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.

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No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.

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Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

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