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Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

— Yoda

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People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

— Ayn Rand

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I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.

— Gustave Eiffel

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None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an after thought. Eat the delicious food. Walk in the sunshine. Jump in the ocean. Say the truth that you’re carrying in your heart like hidden treasure. Be silly. Be kind. Be weird. There’s no time for anything else.

— Christopher Walken

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Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

— Steve Jobs

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When the race gets hard to run, it means you just can’t take the pace.

— Bob Marley