As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. (...) You don't pick out the rain that soaks you to the skin when you come out of a concert.

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This question haunted me all my life and suddenly it hit me: 'There is no self to realize. What the hell have I been doing all this time?' You see, that hits you like lightning. Once that hits you, the whole mechanism of the body that is controlled by this thought is shattered. What is left is the tremendous living organism with an intelligence of its own. What you are left with is the pulse, the beat and the throb of life.

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Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. -Clint Eastwood

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I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. -Clint Eastwood

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Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.- Clint Eastwood

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There's a rebel lying deep in my soul.- Clint Eastwood

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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

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If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.

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The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.

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