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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Clouds Destroy Inspirational Sky
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Body Music Separate Togetherness
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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Combination Death Failure Kindness Life People Process
Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Compassion Family Mature Parents True
Dreams are necessary to life.
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Dreams Inspirational Life Necessary One Liner
No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Carry Force Fulfillment
She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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Admire Confidence Dare Herself Lack Reflection She Woman
It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Charity Freedom Gain Help
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
Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Depression Healing Let Go Master Pain
Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Mask Ourselves Reveal
You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Choice Happiness Inspirational Negative Power
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Life Moments Taste Writing
The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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Creation Intimacy Love Personal Relationship Understand Value
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
Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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Ecstasy Escape Freedom Impress Intoxication Reality Wall

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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