If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

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Laughter is more serious than tears.

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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

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All important things are hard.

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If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.

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You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human... And although you don't have complete control over the narrative - no author does, I can tell you - you could nevertheless create it.

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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.

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Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.

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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.

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