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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Contact Human Precious Preserve Rare Relationship
I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Art Non Violence One Liner Passion Power
Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Compassion Family Mature Parents True
Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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Anxiety Drown Kill Love Man Panic Save Want
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Life Moments Taste Writing
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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Acceptance Appearance Choose Love Mission Peace Talent Worry
Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Inspirational Nature Ourselves
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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Demand Instinct Strength Woman Women Empowerment
Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Depression Healing Let Go Master Pain
It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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Accurate Crises Emotional Human Movement Writing
The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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Children Depth Explore Life Magic Power Truth Wonder
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Kill Knowledge Mystery Possession Sense Wonder
Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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Happiness Ill Joy Peace Serenity
What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Acceptance Love
Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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Circle Infinite Life Motion
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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Arrive Born Friendship Meet Represent World

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

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