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“I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.”

“When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal.”

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Author:Loudon Wainwright III

“A healthy person is not perfect but perfectible, not a done deal but a work in progress. Staying healthy takes discipline, work, and patience, which is why our life is a journey and perforce a heroic one.”

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Book:How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

Source: How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

“Humor enables us to deal with and overcome many of the most painful and difficult situations in our lives.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“When we don't deal honestly with our lives and the losses we face, when we try to anesthetize the pain and move on, then the suppressed anger or fear or guilt will deal with us until we are ready to deal with those issues.”

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Book:Loved Back to Life: How I Found the Courage to Live Free

Source: Loved Back to Life: How I Found the Courage to Live Free

“I think the saddest moments in life have humor in them. I have a memory of coming home from a funeral with my family in the back of a limousine and someone cracking a joke and us just hysterically belly laughing. It's how we always dealt with tragedy in our lives and I think it's such a healthy way to deal with sadness.”

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Author:Zach Braff

“We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.”

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Book:The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Currently there's no other way to get a movie into 3,000 theaters except with a studio. We have a first-look deal with Universal, and it's been fun to work with them. But studios are a part of our life. I think they'll always be, but they'll play a different role. The consumer and the creator are getting closer together.”

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Author:Jason Blum

“Some people try to deal with money by pretending it doesn't matter, but financial pressure is something that affects us all every day of our lives.”

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Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“The greatest natural enemy of women is insecurity. We all feel it and we all think we are the only ones who feel that way. How we deal with these fears determines to a great extent how effective we are in running our lives. Most women present a façade to the world and keep the insecurity locked inside. The toughest job in the world is to be a complete, happy woman.”

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Book:Diane Von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty: How to Become a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman

Source: Diane Von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty: How to Become a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman

“It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them.”

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Author:Eric Heiden

“And it sort of hit me that the very subject matter of the film that I'm dealing with is the key to the most important thing in our lives, and that's our relationships. And so we had done all this research showing the job of each individual emotion, you know, fear keeps you safe. It deals with uncertainty.”

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Author:Pete Docter

“We explore within postures everything we deal with in life: the interplay between resistance and surrender; establishing stability and maintaining flexibility; learning to receive and release; being present to all the complexities of our lives, and returning to the fundamentals of our "beginner's mind" again and again.”

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Author:Brenda Strong

“If you think about black art, all black art, whether it's Invisible Man or whether it's James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston, or Richard Wright, they all deal with elements of identity and trying to humanize our experience and our struggle in the world where people have been indifferent to who we are and what we are. It's basically just saying that our lives have meaning.”

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Author:Cheo Hodari Coker