There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.

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Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. Nothing could vanquish me. — Cheryl Strayed

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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get–only with what you are expecting to give–which is everything. – Katharine Hepburn

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You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth. —William W. Purkey

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Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else...

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Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! ― Jane Austen

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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible! ― Audrey Hepburn

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Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

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Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.

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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can. ― William Faulkner

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