"Your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary."

Identity, Expression, Life, Self

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"Your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary."

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"I am not the river I am the net."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

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"I can't help what I have any more than you can help what you don't."

Neal Shusterman, American Author

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"I have a dark soul, that doesn't mean I don't love the sun, rainbows and things that emphasize the light."

Melody Lee, American Poet

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"I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"What's in a name? The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from Self, in the end they always led back to it. Although Siddhartha fled from the Self a thousand times, dwelt in nothing, dwelt in animal and stone, the return was inevitable; the hour was inevitable when he would again find himself in sunshine or in moonlight, in shadow or in rain, and was again Self and Siddhartha, again felt the torment of the onerous life cycle."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

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"We had as lief not be as not be ourselves."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"The sooner you answer the question, "who am I" the more effective and successful life you will have."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"I hadn't understood at the time. If sinners were so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why.Without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my pastwas my life."

Janet Fitch, American Author

Identity, Pain, Survival, Memory

"Do not allow yourself to be pulled into the role of embracing victimship as some sort of badge of honor to wear or flash around at any opportunity."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin."

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"By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself."

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"You gain power by pretending to be weak."

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"You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you know that, you are useless!"

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"And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight."

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"If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can."

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"I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing."

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"I am not the river I am the net."

"I can't help what I have any more than you can help what you don't."

"I have a dark soul, that doesn't mean I don't love the sun, rainbows and things that emphasize the light."

"I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well."

"What's in a name? The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you."

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"The sooner you answer the question, "who am I" the more effective and successful life you will have."

"I hadn't understood at the time. If sinners were so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why.Without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my pastwas my life."

"Do not allow yourself to be pulled into the role of embracing victimship as some sort of badge of honor to wear or flash around at any opportunity."

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"Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it."

"We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion."

"If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin."

"By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself."

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