When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.

We have no care but how best to serve our master.
- Topic: Customer Service, Service, Work
- Location: Glacier National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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If you cannot be honest with yourself, there is no hope of being honest with anyone else.
There is only one time that is important—now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.
If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.
One can only live while one is intoxicated with life; as soon as one is sober it is impossible not to see that it is all a mere fraud and a stupid fraud! That is precisely what it is: there is nothing either amusing or witty about it, it is simply cruel and stupid.
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