I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.

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I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.

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Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. Mahatma Gandhi

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No matter what is happening in our lives, we choose how we wish to think about it. And the greatest gift we give ourselves is often our willingness to change our minds. Despite what might seem to be the saddest and most intractable situation, we have the power to believe that something else is possible, that things can change, that a miracle can happen.

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I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.

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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

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Believe you can and you're halfway there. - Theodore Roosevelt

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Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people. – Leo Burnett

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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -George Bernard Shaw

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In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.

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