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"The willingness to accept
responsibility for one's own life is the source
from which self-respect springs."
- Joan
Didion
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"To be yourself
in a world that is constantly trying to make
you something else is the greatest
accomplishment."
-
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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"Your living
is determined not so much by what life
brings to you as by the attitude you bring
to life; not so much by what happens to you
as by the way your mind looks at what
happens."
- Khalil Gibran
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"Some people drift along like
a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do
anything except drift, moment to moment. This
is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be
constructive even in tiny ways."
- Edward de
Bono
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"We do not believe in ourselves until
someone reveals that deep inside us is
valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our
trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe
in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder,
spontaneous delight or any experience that
reveals the human spirit."
- Edward E.
Cummings
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"Those who
really seek the path to Enlightenment
dictate terms to their mind. Then they
proceed with strong determination."
- Buddha
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"The tension between 'yes' and 'no,'
between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us
feel that, in so many instances, human life
is an interminable debate with one's self."
- Anatole Broyard
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"Wisdom is
the most important part of happiness."
-
Sophocles
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"A man is a
success if he gets up in the morning and
gets to bed at night, and in between he
does what he wants to do."
-Bob
Dylan
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"There is no
greater delight than to be conscious of
sincerity on self-examination."
- Mencius Mengzi
Meng-tse
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"Fear is not
in the habit of speaking truth. When
perfect sincerity is expected, perfect
freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who
is apt to be angry when he hears the truth
any cause to wonder that he does not hear
it." -
Tacitus
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"If you want
to be respected by others the great thing
is to respect yourself. Only by that, only
by self-respect will you compel others to
respect you." -
Fyodor
Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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"The moment you open your mouth to say one
thing about the nature of reality, you
automatically have a whole set of enemies
who've already said reality is something
else."
-
Robert M.
Pirsig
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"I don't like work, but I like what is in
work, the chance to find yourself. Your own
reality, for yourself, not for others,
which no other man can ever know."
- Joseph
Conrad
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