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The key to being a warrior is not to be afraid of who you are.
Tom Spanbauer
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To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.
Tom Spanbauer
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Maybe you've had skin next to your skin, but when was the last time you let yourself be touched?
Tom Spanbauer
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Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.
Tom Spanbauer
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I'm an old Catholic. I don't believe in anything Catholic but I do believe that Catholicism keeps me from committing suicide.
Tom Spanbauer
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Sometimes the world is so beautiful it hurts.
Tom Spanbauer
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Her heartbeat was in her hands, her heart beat the way she moved her head, her whole body was her heart beating.
Tom Spanbauer
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Why else do we live, except to be loved and remembered by those we love?
Tom Spanbauer
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There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.
Tom Spanbauer
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Miracles are out there somewhere. You just got to find them.
Tom Spanbauer
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Looking for who I am is who I am.
Tom Spanbauer
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Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.
Tom Spanbauer
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The gods know what's important, what's wrong about you. They know everything. If you go out searching for the Holy Grail, they won't let you find it.
Tom Spanbauer
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takes a devil to make a decent angel.
Tom Spanbauer
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We're all just in our bodies for a moment in our life. Such a brave and lovely act it is to let the body celebrate.
Tom Spanbauer
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Things start where you don't know and end up where you know. When you know is when you ask, How did this start?
Tom Spanbauer
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It's the responsibility of the survivor to tell the story.
Tom Spanbauer
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The way I figure it, we know we got this world, so live in this one while you’re here. I figure the next one will take care of itself.
Tom Spanbauer
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Life is absolutely, mysteriously beautiful.
Tom Spanbauer
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I was wounded by a blow of love.
Tom Spanbauer
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Have some fun while you wait for the will of heaven.
Tom Spanbauer