If you will read and listen, you will admit a multiplicity of voices and points of view, consider them with some humility, allow them gracious entrance however strident or discordant some of them may sound, then you will grow and change, and each of these voices will become a constituent part of who you become, an atom of growing being. It is literature and only literature than can do this. Rick Gekoski
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When you read and listen to different opinions and voices, you will find that they add to your experience. You will understand that there is no one correct point of view or belief that can be stated with absolute certainty. You will realize that all points of view and beliefs are valuable if they make you a better person. This quote is one of my favorite quotes and I try to live my life by it.

Source: Darke

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