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“It is very easy to follow your parents,
it is very easy to follow your teachers,
it is very easy to follow the society,
it is very easy to be obedient --

to be rebellious, to be on your own, is very difficult.

But growth comes the hard way.”

“Where your fear is, there is your task.”

“The world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.”

“When you have something to say, silence is a lie.”

“You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.”

“This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”

“No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.”

“Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.”

“Courage is a love affair with the unknown.”

“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”

“I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.”

“The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.”

“Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.”

“You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.”

“Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.”

“As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.”

“The Christian, however, must bear the burden of a brother. He must suffer and endure the brother. It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated. The burden of men was so heavy for God Himself that He had to endure the Cross. God verily bore the burden of men in the body of Jesus Christ. But He bore them as a mother carries her child, as a shepherd enfolds the lost lamb that has been found. God took men upon Himself and they weighted Him to the ground, but God remained with them and they with God. In bearing with men God maintained fellowship with them. It was the law of Christ that was fulfilled in the Cross. And Christians must share in this law.”

“Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.”