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“Each of us has only one life, unique from every other, and we all have reason to ask, “Why me?”, not in bitterness or despair but in awe and gratitude.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“You may be appalled by your world, but you must be gratefully appalled.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Your life has come at the expense of a nearly infinite number of other potential lives that will now never get to be lived because you get to live.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“You have but one life. You could spend it taking stock of what others have and resenting it, or you could spend it taking stock of what you have and doing something with it.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Categorizing yourself by either your victimization or your privilege fails to give any clarity to life’s fundamental question: What are you going to do with it?”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Wallowing in victimhood only demeans and paralyzes you. Don’t do it. Redeem it instead. Transcend it instead.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“A woman in labor never asks, “Why me?” because she knows both the cause of her suffering and its effect, and that sense of reason and purpose gives her the capacity to endure it.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Once you know who you are, you need not fear being misunderstood, or isolated, or bullied. You won’t care whether others respect you, because you know who you are.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Justice is the delusion of the self-entitled. To desire it is to desire a world that is not this world.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Whatever your world is, you are alive, and an incomprehensible number of things had to happen just the way they did for that to be the case.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

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