"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
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"I think of people as stars. Some are so far away and some seem to shine brighter than others, appearing to be something ‘more.’ However, the twinkling capabilities that stars have are due to their positioning and the air around them as it diffuses the light. I like to believe that this can be applied to people too. That one’s environment and circumstances not only shape them but also the way that they are perceived by others, especially in comparison to ourselves, even though we are all very much the same."
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"Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that will shatter the ideal you’ve built up around a person and force you to see them for the fallible and human creature that they really are."
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"The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing."
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"The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. but it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of every kind. it needs people who live well in their places. it needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. and these qualities have little to do with success as our culture has defined it."
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"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."
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