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“We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.”

“I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.”

“What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.”

“Music is something everyone on Earth can share. Music is meant to heal us, to bring us together, to make us happy.”

“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”

“If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.”

“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.”

“Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.”

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”

“Harmony is next to Godliness”

“The greatest ideas are the simplest.”

“The only interesting thing about religion is how many people it's slaughtered. Communism and Nazism are religions as well, make no mistake about it.”

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

“Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.”

“Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation…. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.”

“Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships.”

“This book was written using 100% recycled words.”

“Strive to preserve your heart in peace; let no event of this world disturb it; reflect that all must come to an end.”

“It's too late to start over, this is the only thing I know”