I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake

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The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time. — Joe Girard

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My grandma used to make syrup for us because we couldn't afford it and I just played around with her recipe. I made strawberry syrup and that didn't really work out but I made strawberry-vanilla and that sold. Then I just went out and took marketing classes, went to seminars, learned about marketing a product and striking deals. It ended up taking orders of $1.5 million.

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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

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Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.

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In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.- Calvin Coolidge

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Be as delicate as a flower at all times. A flower can still bloom when surrounded by thorns, but you can’t smile if you’re in pain. ― Shree Shambav

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In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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I am not this skin, this flesh, this bone, this hair, or this other physical component; rather, I am the soul that resides there. ― Shree Shambav

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