It's amazing - you may not realize it, but so much of what you are not is because you are literally standing in your own way of becoming. And what I'm pleading with you about is, get the hell out of your own way.

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Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

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Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't.

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

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Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

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There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give.

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Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.

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When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom

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Live nutty. Just occasionally. Just once in a while. And see what happens. It brightens up the day.

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One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.

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