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“We value things like stability, control and feeling good. We often see truth as an oppositional force to these things, when in reality, truth is our only way of actually achieving these things.”

“If we show or tell someone a truth about ourselves, it will cause them to become more clear about their truth. We have to develop the capacity to make room for both truths.”

“We have a conditional relationship with the truth. We only want truth if it makes us feel more stable. We only want truth if it makes us feel more in control. We only want truth if it makes us feel good. And this conditional relationship that we have with the truth will be our downfall.”

“There is no better place than in the arms of the one you love.”

“i told myself as hero like any shipwreck story. it was a shipwreck, and me thrown on the coastline of humankind, and finding it not so hamna, and rarely kind.”

“the imprint of another life, and although you can never have that life, your fingers trace the space where it might have been, and your fingers learn a kind of braille.”

“i miss the company of someone utterly loyal”

“there are different types of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it.”

“all the inevitable dying that comes with change. theres no choice that doesnt mean a loss.”

“Don't be so humble, you are not that great.”

“Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.”

“Avoid the deafening noise of silence: incite thoughts by disfavouring action.”

“Nobody observes you and studies you as much as your enemy.”

“In life, the important is not what happens, but how we deal with it.”

““To write my essay I had to read books differently, without giving myself over to either fear or adoration. Because Burke had defended the British monarchy, Dad would have said he was an agent of tyranny. He wouldn't have wanted the book in the house. There was a thrill in trusting myself to read the words. I felt a similar thrill in reading Madison, Hamilton and Jay, especially on those occasions when I discarded their conclusions in favor of Burke's, or when it seemed to me that their ideas were not really different in substance, only in form. There were wonderful suppositions embedded in this method of reading: that books are not tricks, and that I was not feeble””

““To write my essay I had to read books differently, without giving myself over to either fear or adoration. ””

“Be mindful of addictions. Any addiction, over time becomes your downfall.”

“Humility, respect, honesty and gratitude: four main values for a better world.”

“An example of life? In work, in friendship, in love, in pleasure and in pain: always, unconditionally and simply be yourself.”