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"Your mind is your world. Your heart is your nature. Your soul is your universe. Your life is your creation."
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"I have enjoyed my company so fondly, I may not feel alone when I am lonely."

"If there is wrong [ill] on the inside, the outside will appear wrong. Therefore, you should inquire within 'why am I bothered, when others are not? So there must be wrong within me only."

"Oh yes, I am frequently driven to an enraged frenzy by the blatantly crass actions of others. But to be painfully honest, that anger is much less driven by the reality of their actions and far more fueled by the realization that everything I am is everything that I hate in them."

"I grab the pillows off the bed and chuck them at the reflection in the mirror of the girl I no longer know. I watch as the girl in the mirror stares back at me, sobbing pathetically. The weakness in her tears infuriates me."

"If you say something and reject any criticism, then your words truly meant to advise yourself."

"We must question every inner-belief we possess without fear or attachment."

"Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self."

"I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me."

"Each of us is called upon to take a stand. So in these days ahead, as we examine ourselves and each other, our works, our fears, our differences, our sisterhood and survivals, I urge you to tackle what is most difficult for us all, self-scrutiny of our complacencies, the idea that since each of us believes she is on the side of right, she need not examine her position."

"Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. This feeling was very strong upon me that night. Here was another side to my dream."
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"Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean."

"The intelligent are candles, the virtuous are torches, the wise are lamps, and the enlightened are stars."

"If birds did not believe in their ability to fly, the sky would be empty."

"Looking for a wife is like fishing; before you go, make sure you don't have a hole in your net."

"You are better than your past, greater than your present, and brighter than your future."
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