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Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.

Criss Jami

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A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king.
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To ask, 'How do you do it?' is already starting off on the wrong foot. When reaching for the stars, there does not have to be a 'how' if there is a big enough 'why'.
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A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.
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The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.
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I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.
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I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.
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The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.
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A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
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People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.
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The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.
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When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.
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When you aren't satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn't need to complain.
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When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.
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Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.
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Drunken men give some of the best pep talks.
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Frequent risk-takers have had their fair shares of failures and successes, hence, being confident in reaching their goals, they will usually seem insensitive to whether or not they look foolish or cool to other people.
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Happiness is good, but well-overrated: what we hate most are the very motivators that put us in gear. A man drifts along with little to contribute until something agitates him enough to make a difference, whether for himself or for his communities.
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Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.
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