Alice Walker Quotes, Heart Quotes, Laughing Quotes

HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.

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Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?

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You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.

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You're not here just to be a clone. You're not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don't have to apply. You don't even have to go there to be absolutely yourself - real, here, now, on this planet.

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I don't require myself or anyone to go beyond what they feel they can do. I just do suggest - for their own eventual happiness - that they go as far as they can. They can usually go much further than they think.

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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

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Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

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Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.

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Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.

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Resistance is the secret of joy!

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I always have felt that elders are really important. I think it's because, in my little Southern black culture, elders really were respected. Everybody listened to them. They may not have agreed - that's a whole different story - but they would totally listen and consider what the elder had to say.

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A grown child is a dangerous thing.

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I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

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As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.

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I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.

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We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you.

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But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

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I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

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Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

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My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

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