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I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.

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I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excess.

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I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.

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What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?

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Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

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Happiness [is] only real when shared

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Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

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He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.

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When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.

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