The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. ― Ben Okri

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Every thing you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, love will return in a different way.

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It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform. ― Roy T. Bennett

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Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step. - Deng Xiaoping

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The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

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To get rich is glorious. - Deng Xiaoping

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Let some people get rich first. - Deng Xiaoping

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Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious. - Deng Xiaoping

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Reform is China's second revolution. - Deng Xiaoping

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To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved. ― bell hooks

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