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If you are feeling incredibly altruistic, you will care about what people think, because it reflects the nature of their suffering, and you will know how to show them compassion.

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In maturing, many humans lose their innocence, but none lose their vulnerability.

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maybe less attention to what you weigh and more to helping others on their way; less attention to what you eat and more to who and how you nourish

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and try living in the present, really the present, speaking and thinking only of and to the persons directly in front of you

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try living like there's no yesterday; begin by honestly letting go of other people's past mistakes

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imagine Pascal's wager

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Maybe confidence is less a matter of concerning yourself with what others think of you and more a matter of what you think of others; less a matter of how you look as how you see; less a matter of how you feel as how you touch.

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One of the most troublesome hangups is to have hangups about other people's hangups.