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The ones I loved fly as birds in the open sky above me. Soaring, weaving, calling to me to join them. I want so badly to follow them, but the seawater saturates my wings, making it impossible to lift them. The ones I hated have taken to the water, horrible scaled things that tear my salty flesh with needle teeth. Biting again and again. Dragging me beneath the surface.
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It's not really that much of a big deal - you brush it off and you come back. Defeat is the secret ingredient to success.
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Don't be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.
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I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear.
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I think the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina,
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A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard.
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Giving back is the new luxury.
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The movement of you brought forward is love.
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It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior.
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People can look at me any way they want to. If somebody meets me and hangs out with me, they can see what kind person I am. I can't change for people.
