And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible.

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Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive good things and good people will be drawn to you. _ Mary Lou Retton

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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

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I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.

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People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs. — Marianne Williamson

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When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises. ― Paulo Coelho

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The more you try to please people, the more they get control of you and you'll end up hurting yourself. ― Chanda Kaushik

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Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy or consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.

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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own. ― Marcus Aurelius

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