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Ellen Glasgow

"To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice."

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"To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice."

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"You have your whole life to become what you wish to become. As long as we know where we are going, we can prepare ourselves for the journey. That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever."

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"Cut the connection between your clothes and your beliefs, because clothes will not make you something, it won't make you honest or dishonest, good or bad! Your essence will not change because of what you wear!"

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"We must carefully cultivate the voice that speaks to us because an internal voice is the ultimate narrator of our charming and delightful personal story or the documentarian of our tragic and disgraceful plotlines. Stories that we tell ourselves become our functional reality, which format structures the concourse of the nested emotional control panel that guides and girds us through the din of the present."

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"Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention."

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"One day you will wake up, you will see with clear sight all that has held you back; you will feel lighter because you finally accept who you are. You will shine with flawless beauty because your happiness comes from the purity of your heart and one day I hope you realise all of this, before it's too late; because darling, if we spent our years nurturing the best of ourselves, heaven would be felt on earth."

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"Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do."
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"Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted."
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"Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance."
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"A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away."
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