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“You never, ever really know who the real person is. People are good at pretending.
People know how to dress their souls up, put some makeup on. They can act polite when everyone is looking but you can never be sure.”
“The whole purpose of this world really is for the next world, you know. This world is the corridor, before the palace.
I love the way a whole life was sucked into the letters and when I read them, the story pushes itself from the letters on the page, up into the air, and into my head.
‘Let the dead bury the dead but while I’m alive I must live and be happy.’”
‘We can know that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.’
Even though I have no answers—and sometimes the sadness in my heart feels like it will pull me down and bury me—I still feel a strange and beautiful peace in where I am right now, and I know that everything is going to be OK.
“All destruction comes from thinking about others as different than you. To be cruel to someone, you cannot think of them as yourself. So, we make them a stranger in our eyes. As if we don’t all have the same blood in our veins, as if we don’t breathe the same air. No one can be cruel unless they really view someone as different but that rips the world apart.
All because we haven’t yet learned to view each other as ourselves . . . that we are the furthest thing from strangers . . . that we are all part of one whole.
You choose what you want to be.”
but with the everyday decisions he made he molded himself into the person he is today.”
“Think of it as the greatest gift of all. You don’t wait to see what kind of life you lived or what kind of person you became, you choose for yourself no matter what you are going through. You don’t wait for life to happen to you, you happen to life.
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every move you make you can choose to make it what you want, what you believe in, even if...
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If you are reading this now, you are alive, and for you, too, the world was created for you alone. All the beauty of the world was created just for you, and for each one of us.
We cannot always prevent the bad, but we also cannot let it overshadow the good.
The greatest revenge we can inflict is to have tolerance and kindness for ALL peoples,
Evil does not only happen when a person is abnormally bad. Evil happens when good people do not see the good in other people. Evil happens when we judge each other. Evil happens when we put ourselves higher than others. Evil happens when we stand by someone else’s evil and do not speak up.
