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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Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership.

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When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.

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Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people. - Cornel West

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I like Kit-Kat, unless I'm with four or more people.- Mitch Hedberg

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There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

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People always complain that they can't do this and they can't do that." "If we look at our lives and concentrate on things that we don't have or wish to have, that doesn't change the circumstances. The truth is that we have to focus on what we have and make the best out of it.

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There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey. ― Chris Heimerdinger

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Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people," I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the time. ― Jandy Nelson

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I do forgive people when they get it right, even people who in the past I thought were unforgivable.

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