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Don't focus so much on your relationships. Have fun with them. Or if you don't have them, you don't want them, have fun with that.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
Author
Entrepreneur
San Diego
California
Sexuality
Buddhism
Relationships
Fun
Focus
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Then you will pick yourself up, no matter how tired you are, and go forward again and again and again, until you've reached liberation.
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