"You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn't do without you. The rub is that you don't always know who."
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"The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be."
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"Don't worry that your children never listen to you: worry that they are always watching you."
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"Whatever, there are consequences. Nobody is exempt, said the master."
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"Everything I need to know…I learned in kindergarten."
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"To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level."
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"It wasn't in books. It wasn't in church. What I needed to know was out there in the world."
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"It doesn't matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do."
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"Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify."
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"If you do not join the dancing you will feel foolish. So why not dance? And I will tell you a secret: If you do not join the dance, we will know you are a fool. But if you dance, we will think well of you for trying. If you dance badly to begin and we laugh, what is the sin in that? We will begin there."
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"Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found."
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"If you tell people you talk to God, they'll think you're religious, but if you say God talks to you, it's ten to one they'll think you're crazy."
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"What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?"
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"Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away."
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"Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes."
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"When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love!"
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