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I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me. ↗
Beethoven speaking to royalty: "What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven. ↗
He was like a song, I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since." - Sayuri, Memoir of Geisha ↗
Far more powerful than religion, far more powerful than money, or even land or violence, are symbols. Symbols are stories. Symbols are pictures, or items, or ideas that represent something else. Human beings attach such meaning and importance to symbols that they can inspire hope, stand in for gods, or convince someone that he or she is dying. These symbols are everywhere around you. ↗
Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, we will never lose our value in God’s eyes. ↗
The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind. ↗
We spend so much time on the whole world instead of on those who really need us, in a world where rumours are a trend and truth is an afterthought. ↗
