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" Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. "

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" We all need each other. "

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" The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position. "

" What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. "

" The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them. "

" Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise. "

" I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. "

" Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. "

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" I've learned that you learn best by modeling. If you want people to learn, do it! "

" I've spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted to hear me, including 1,000 nuns who could pay me only with homemade bread. "

" Biologically and physiologically, we are not equal. Some of us learn better at different times of day. Some learn best visually, some auditorially, some tactilely, by touching. "

" I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover. "

" If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails. "

" I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way. "

" Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. "

" Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. "

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" I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it. "

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