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If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

Criss Jami

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Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don't let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you're part of the crowd that will move on to the next fashion that comes around.
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Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.
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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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Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.
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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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I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.
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Normality is the new eccentric.
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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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A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth.
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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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