"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."

Identity, Self, Belonging, Life

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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

"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

"I am a WomanPhenomenally.Phenomenal Woman,that's me."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Identity, Womanhood, Strength, Pride

"I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Identity, Self, Reflection, Perception, Life

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"Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves."

Mindfulness, Meditation, Power, Focus

"No man is exempt from saying silly things, the mischief is to say them deliberately."

Behavior, Speech, Mistake, Humor, Judgment

"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."

Conscience, Labor, Memory, Understanding

"Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."

Soul, Senses

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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."

"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."

"I am a WomanPhenomenally.Phenomenal Woman,that's me."

"I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play."

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"Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves."

"No man is exempt from saying silly things, the mischief is to say them deliberately."

"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."

"Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."

"The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness."

"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul."

"There is no passion so contagious as that of fear."

"There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened."

"The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar."

"Desire and hope will push us on toward the future."