"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely." - Carl Jung
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"Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller
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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin
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"The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze." - Unknown
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  "To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." - e.e. cummings
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"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way." - Juan Ramon Jimenez
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"Spiritual maturity is a lifelong process of replacing lies with truth." - Kurt D. Bruner
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"Keep me from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children." - Kahlil Gibran
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"One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, 'What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?'" - Rachel Carson
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"Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness." - Leo Tolstoy
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"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him or visiting him with any evil in case he do otherwise." - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
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"I can help you to accept and open yourself mostly by accepting and revealing myself to you." - Unknown

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"There is only one important question: Is the universe friendly?" - Albert Einstein
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"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Pablo Picasso
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