Asperger’s is not a disease. It’s a way of being. There is no cure, nor is there a need for one. There is, however, a need for knowledge and adaptation on the part of Aspergian kids and their families and friends.


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Life is a re-discovery.
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DEYTH BANGER
Life is a desire!
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It is a lie.
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The one w...
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Mother Superior jump the gun...
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Be grateful for every moment and every breath.
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This life is a process of learning.
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Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
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Everybody in life is a chameleon.
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Hodor," said Hodor.
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My life is a struggle.
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All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love.
MORIHEI UESHIBA
For me, life is a bowl of cherries.
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Life is a right, not collateral or casual.
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She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
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You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
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Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a jo...
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All of life is a foreign country.
JACK KEROUAC
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE
For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA
Life is a predicament which precedes death.
HENRY JAMES
Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
JACK KEROUAC
Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome.
DANNY MEYER
Life is a soccer field, don't you think?
SHAKIRA
What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
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Life is a matter of courtship and wooing, flirting and chatting.
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Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
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I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
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There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
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When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
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PLINY THE ELDER
There is always something new out of Africa.
PLINY THE ELDER
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
CATO THE ELDER
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
PLINY THE ELDER
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
PLINY THE ELDER
Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of liv...
PLINY THE ELDER
Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
CATO THE ELDER
If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
CATO THE ELDER
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
CATO THE ELDER
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and i...
PLINY THE ELDER
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
CATO THE ELDER
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
CATO THE ELDER
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
PLINY THE ELDER
Home is where the heart is.
PLINY THE ELDER
It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
CATO THE ELDER
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to b...
CATO THE ELDER
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
PLINY THE ELDER
The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
CATO THE ELDER
It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
CATO THE ELDER
The master's eye is the best fertilizer.
PLINY THE ELDER
In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.
PLINY THE ELDER
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
CATO THE ELDER
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fool...
CATO THE ELDER
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
CATO THE ELDER
Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
CATO THE ELDER
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest...
PLINY THE ELDER
We trace out all the veins of the earth, and yet, living upon it, undermined as it is beneath our fe...
PLINY THE ELDER
Our forefathers regarded as a prodigy the passage of the Alps: first by Hannibal and, more recently,...
PLINY THE ELDER
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to c...
PLINY THE ELDER
The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice ...
PLINY THE ELDER