Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

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Because I loved myself, I was loved.

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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.

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I don't think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am. I don't think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star

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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.

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