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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.

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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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Alignment Failure Human Nature Soul Suffering
Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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One Liner Sympton Violence
The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Experience Moments Passion Passionate Personality
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Life Moments Taste Writing
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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Country Dreams Friendship Kite Life Love Space
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Experience Inspirational Master One Liner Pain Secret
Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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Circle Infinite Life Motion
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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Catch Dreams Inspirational Live Miracle Moments Positive Run
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Death Error Giving Healing Lose Move On Postpone Risk Suffering
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
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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Breathe Cry Culture Sing Writing
Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Loneliness Man Woman
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
I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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Believe Change Deep Influence Inspirational Life Ourselves Revolution
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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Depth Fear Live Mermaid Snorkeling
One handles truths like dynamite.
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Handle Inspirational One Liner Truth

Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.

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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.

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