Giving advice isn't as risky as people say. Few ever take it anyway.

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You do learn things and one of them is that happiness has nothing to do with validation from other people, the important thing is being happy with yourself ... finding something that is important to you and sticking with it no matter what anyone says. The truth is you've got to really be tough because there are all kinds of forces that are always trying to get you to do things their way ... trying to tell you that you are throwing your life away if you don't follow their advice.

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I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social environment. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.

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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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The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

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Keep it positive. No one wants to be around people who are constantly negative. ― Germany Kent

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Be so happy that, when other people look at you, they become happy too. — Anonymous

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