"However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can't run away from your own feet."

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"I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess."

Robert Mapplethorpe, American Photographer

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"I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing."

Alistair Maclean, Scottish Novelist

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"'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth."

Mary Astell, English Writer

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"The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler."

Fulton J. Sheen, American Clergyman

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"To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

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"But mostly I just think I'am not the best person to demonstrate all the goodness humanity has to offer. I don't want you to be too disappointed when you realize that."

Marissa Meyer, American Author

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"You have to know yourself enough to be able to choose friends that you will be compatible with."

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Swedish Businessman

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"For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power."

David W. Earle, American Author

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"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Self-Awareness, Strategy, Results

"We make such messes in this life, both accidently and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

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"When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form."

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"I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess."

"I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing."

"'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth."

"The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler."

"To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do."

"But mostly I just think I'am not the best person to demonstrate all the goodness humanity has to offer. I don't want you to be too disappointed when you realize that."

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"For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power."

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."

"We make such messes in this life, both accidently and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are."

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"The question of divine knowledge is so deep that it is really known only to those who have it."

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"When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form."

"Be a dog, but don't be a younger brother.Proverb."

"WisdomSufian said: 'The wisdom which is invisible but which sustains is a hundred times better than the appearance of wisdom, for that has itself to be sustained."