If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

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Are you weak? Weary? Confused? Troubled? Pressured? How is your relationship with God? Is it held in its place of priority? I believe the greater the pressure, the greater your need for time alone with Him.

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Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themselves. It's wonderful when the people believe in their leader. It's more wonderful when the leader believes in their people! You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

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Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route. ― Tom Robbins

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You know, people ask me. They say 'Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?' but they don't understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within. ― Dan Howell

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Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth.

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I am a Hitchcockian - I still believe that 'Psycho' sets the standard for mother/son relations. - Luca Guadagnino

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Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and appease their own feelings of mediocrity and fear.

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There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself. ― Jonathan Safran Foer

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All you need is the courage to believe in yourself and put one foot in front of the other.

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