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If you can't understand why someone is doing something, look at the consequences of their actions, whatever they might be, and then infer the motivations from their consequences. For example if someone is making everyone around them miserable and you'd like to know why, their motive may simply be to make everyone around them miserable including themselves.

Understand Someone Look Action
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It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you're going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.

Little Order Insist World
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Intolerance of others’ views (no matter how ignorant or incoherent they may be) is not simply wrong; in a world where there is no right or wrong, it is worse: it is a sign you are embarrassingly unsophisticated or, possibly, dangerous.

View Matter Wrong Right
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Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities. Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care with yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination and articulate your Being. As the great nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, “He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.

Power Vision Direction Force
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You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.

Protect Frighten Hurt Identify
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Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.

True Always Come Power
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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.

Suffer Know Terribly Cause
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You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction. Random wandering will not move you forward. It will instead disappoint and frustrate you and make you anxious and unhappy and hard to get along with and then resentful, and then vengeful, and then worse.

Determine Life Move Instead
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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Courage Practice Virtue Kind
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Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

Passion Destroy Temple Build
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Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

World Cause Solve Problem
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Agony Story Inside Greater
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I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

Hard Play Life Love
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Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it

Want Great Love Sacrifice Whatever
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Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

Best Better Know Until
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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Encounter Defeat Must Many
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When you know you are of worth, you don’t have to raise your voice, you don’t have to become rude, you don’t have to become vulgar; you just are. And you are like the sky is, as the air is, the same way water is wet. It doesn’t have to protest.

Worth Raise Voice Rude
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You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.

Goal Love Pursue Instead
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I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don’t feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don’t like the destination and you look behind and you don’t want to return to that place, step off the road.

Road Comfortable Ahead Destination
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Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.

Right Possibility Invent Daily
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I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Seem Today Better Tomorrow
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You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.

Angry Bitter Cancer Host
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Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you… yet, someone survived… You can do anything you choose to do.

Hurt Hungry Beaten Rape
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When I forgive other people, I let them go, I free them from my ignorance. And as soon as I do, I feel lighter, brighter and better.

Forgive Free Better Brighter
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Write Hear Idea Brain
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No matter how hot your tempa be,e no fit boil beans.

Hot Beans Fit Tempa
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
Apartment Because Casually Cost
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I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

Trust Love African Careful
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I never have written every day. When I’m writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.

Sanity Pretend Book Writing
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Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.

Grace Lake Water Door
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If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

Life Save Own First
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Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

Listen Hear Voice God
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Alas the last of the great Titans… The great one who pricked himself on a senticous bush as he pushed for the freedom of his people from oppression… An epitome of sophronization…We shall not cry, rather we will celebrate a life truly well lived…

Great Titan Pricked Freedom
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

Mother Always Intolerant Ignorance
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Cancer Host Anger Fire
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You listen with interest. That gives some sense of confidence to the speaker.

Listen Interest Sense Confidence
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I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me – I didn’t know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn’t know it then, and I know more now.

Poem Back Write Surprise
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I’ve learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.

Learn Great Gift Give
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You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Total Everything Heard Seen
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I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

Hero Person Intent Better
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I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.

Encourage Courtesy Accept Nothing
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I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love.

Love Able Grateful Been
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I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

Soul Liberate Benefit Among
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First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.

Love Better Falling Least
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When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.

Universe Brave Fun Intelligent
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When people see the laughing face, even if they’re jealous of it, their burden is lightened. But do it first for yourself. Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself.

Laughing Face Jealous People
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Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

Sacrifice Great Want Able
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If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it’s more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.

Translate Another Race Fall
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If you want to liberate someone, love them. Not be in love with them – that’s dangerous.

Liberate Dangerous Someone Love
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When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Child Soldier General Monk
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