If somebody doesn’t want to understand or see you that’s on them. You don’t have to carry that with you.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Be kind and do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
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Terry Pratchett
Novelist
It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases – one was Alzheimer's and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer's. There were times when I thought I'd have been much happier not knowing, just accepting that I'd lost brain cells and one day they'd probably grow back or whatever. It is better to know, though, and better for it to be known, because it has got people talking, which I rather think was what I had in mind.
Recorded
Written for the Alzheimer's Society in 2008; reprinted by the Observer in the week of his death, The Guardian, 2008
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You can only do one thing at a time.
Minnie Driver
British and American actress
That your life is only in this very second.
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View profile →Your average aid worker, wherever they may be. Any human being doing good by helping others, while putting themselves in harm’s way.
Whenever I’m with my wife and I’m not preoccupied with work.
A tennis player.
Surviving this world.
Cruelty, bullying, selfishness.
Watching the South Korean film Past Lives. I was on a plane and weeping uncontrollably.
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