"People rarely do what they don't want to."

-- Peter De Vries

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“You are the luminous mystery in which the entire universe with its forms and phenomena arises and subsides. When this realization dawns there is a complete transformation of your personal self into your universal self . . . the complete loss of all fear, including death. You have become a being who radiates love the same way the sun radiates light. You have finally arrived at the place from which your journey began.”
“Basically, we are all different and we all have something to learn and it doesn't mean people need to change who you are but one should be open to new things and, above all, tolerance and understanding are essential for growth and happiness.”

Source : Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
“Make us happy and you make us good.”
“Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.”
“You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important.”
“It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.”
“In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.”
“My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.”

Source : "How Peter Orszag's Budget Team Makes America Work" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2010.

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