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21 " Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place. "
― Richard Bach , Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
22 " We teach best what we most need to learn. "
23 " Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do. "
24 " This is a test to see if your mission in this life is complete, if you are alive, it isn't. "
25 " Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world -- even if what is published is not true. "
26 " How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble. "
27 " Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. "
28 " The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't. "
29 " Like attracts like. Just be who you are, calm and clear and bright. Automatically, as we shine who we are, asking ourselves every minute is this what I really want to do, doing it only when we answer yes, automatically that turns away those who have nothing to learn from who we are,and attracts those who do, and from whom we have to learn, as well. "
30 " You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it however. "
31 " Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream. "
32 " The only obligation we have in any lifetime is to be true to ourselves. "
33 " Happiness is a choice. It is not always an easy one. "
34 " But one creature said at last, "I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom. "
35 " Only a few people are interested in what you have to say, but that's all right. You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds, remember. "
36 " Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers. "
37 " Anybody who’s ever mattered, anybody who’s ever been happy, anybody who’s ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions. "
38 " If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production out of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That’s all there is to it. "
39 " There was part of me listening that didn't think what I said was fiction. I was making up a true story. "
40 " Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them, "