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01Undated

Hatred doesn’t need company. It stews in its own loneliness and can grow still. Love needs companions. Love alone is daunted. Love together is unbound and unrestricted.

Kyle Schmalenberg / quote

02Undated

How can you trust only yourself when your eyes can blind you, your ears deceive you, when you speak that which you don’t mean, and do that which you planned against?

Kyle Schmalenberg / quote

03Undated

The depth of a man is a limit only he can know, should he have the courage to explore into the dark.

Kyle Schmalenberg / quote

04Undated

Having the courage to stand up for yourself is like bringing swords to a stick fight.

Kyle Schmalenberg / quote

05Undated

To turn down knowledge is to resign to ignorance.

Kyle Schmalenberg / quote

06Undated

Saying 'I don’t know' is one of the most powerful things you can say because it creates the potential to find out.

Kyle Schmalenberg / quote

07Undated

My life is a constant struggle between what they want me to be, what I want me to be, and who I’m being instead.

Kyle Schmalenberg / quote