"Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming."

Identity, Change, Character, Responsibility

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"Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Identity, Memory, Past, Truth

"Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Identity, Church, Army, Day

"Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

Identity, Darkness, Death, Mental

"The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways the fact that today's boy often has a wider range of emotional expression in early childhood, but if forced to suppress emotional awareness later on makes adolescence all the more stressful for boys. Tragically, were it not for the extreme violence that has erupted among teenage boys throughout our nation, the emotional life of boys would still be ignored. Although therapists tell us that mass media images of male violence and domination teach boys that violence is alluring and satisfying, when individual boys are violent, especially when they murder randomly, pundits tend to behave as though it were a mystery why boys are so violent."

bell hooks, American Critic

Identity, Violence, Adolescence, Emotion

"Each of us has no peers, because each of us is unique in who we are and what we have experienced.Anyone who tells you otherwise has quite obviously not met any of their peers either!"

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

Identity, Individual, Experience, Self

"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."

Stephen King, American Author

Identity, Truth, Emotion, Wisdom, Power

"As I think of myself, so I shall be."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

Identity, Self, Thought, Perception

"Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were."

David Levithan, American Author

Identity, Connection, Desire, Defiance

"No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Identity, Memory, Life, Editing, Truth

"I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Identity, Writer, Expression, Self

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"Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness."

Wisdom

"Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. "

Mindset

"Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way."

Reading

"Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job you can make a living, but if you work hard on yourself you'll make a fortune."

Growth

"Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people."

Communication

"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention."

Attention

"You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life."

Purpose

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"Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories."

"Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better."

"Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me."

"Each of us has no peers, because each of us is unique in who we are and what we have experienced.Anyone who tells you otherwise has quite obviously not met any of their peers either!"

"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."

"As I think of myself, so I shall be."

"Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were."

"No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice."

"I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes."

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"Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness."

"A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images."

"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."

"Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion."

"Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. "

"Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way."

"Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job you can make a living, but if you work hard on yourself you'll make a fortune."

"Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people."

"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention."

"You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life."