“I mean, if the relationship can’t survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?”
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“One may reasonably ask: Why do people cling to the values and practices of the past, when they so obviously no longer work? Long-standing thought patterns are hard to overcome because they often appear to serve the interests of the individual, and old ways of thinking are simpler and easier
“I was asked once, ‘you’re a smart man, why aren’t you rich? I replied ‘you’re a rich man, why aren’t you smart?”
“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer.”
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
“A relationship is not a test so why cheat?”
“How will you make your choices today….. With love or fear?”
“If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t there more happy people in the world?”
“How do you run away from the things that are in your head?”
“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
“I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.”
“Truth comes, but we can’t hear it. How can we hear it when we have been programmed to fear it?”
“The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.”
“We love ourselves even after we make so many mistakes, so why do we hate others for one or two mistakes they’ve made?”
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told