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“Having problems doesn't make you noble or virtuous, it makes you human. Nobility and virtue comes from the way that you handle your problems and either learn to move past them or live with them if out of your control.”

Book:Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

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“...two chimpanzees were observed maltreating a chicken: One would extend some food to the fowl, encouraging it to approach; whereupon the other would thrust at it with a piece of wire it had concealed behind its back. The chicken would retreat but soon allow itself to approach once again--and be beaten once again. Here is a fine combination of behavior sometimes thought to be uniquely human: cooperation, planning a future course of action, deception and cruelty.”

Human Nature Cruelty Chimpanzees

Book:The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

Source: The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

“The first step to empathy and compassion is realising the similarities between yourself and those that are suffering; the first step to forgiveness is realising that we're all human and we all share the same capacity for fallibility and foible; the first step to growth is to recognise the value of things that are outside your current mental frameworks so that you can grow into them.”

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Book:Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

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“And do you see how beautiful and graceful the birds are when they are flying and soaring? The ground has many comforts for them to enjoy... But in the sky they are truly what a bird is meant to be. So it is with the human heart.”

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Book:Bind Not the Heart: A Windflower Saga Novella (The Windflower Saga)

Source: Bind Not the Heart: A Windflower Saga Novella (The Windflower Saga)

“It’s easy to fall in love, Ben. The hard part comes when you want out.”

Love Breaking Up

Book:November 9

Source: November 9

“When I was much younger, I never believed I was to be a Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, or any other religion. I grew up believing I was god.”

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“It is not easy to be stranded between two worlds, the sad truth is that we can never feel completely comfortable in either world.”

Human Nature Cultural Differences

Book:Devil's Brood

Source: Devil's Brood

“The human condition is essentially the conflict between the human need for control and a universe that provides little if any of it. Once we accept this and get into the flow of life, we are free and, paradoxically, able to get better results.”

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Book:Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

Source: Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“Within perfect walls there is nothing worth protecting. There is, in fact, nothing. And so we exchange privacy for intimacy.”

Human Nature Loneliness Privacy

Book:Lexicon

Source: Lexicon

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