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"There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught."
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"To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other."
"My worth changes with every choice I make and every action I take. I can choose myself to uselessness or to being valuable."
"You are the most important person in your life. Your relationship with yourself defines your relationships with every other person you encounter. Celebrate yourself and celebrate all those around you."
"The most important journey in your life will be the journey to find yourself. To find who you are, to find what you love, is the greatest gift in life. Look at yourself, honestly, and find who you really are. To reveal your true self might be scary but the act of learning who you really are is important to make it possible to live your best possible life."
"There is no denial that the lack of self-love conditions many to feel unimportant or irrelevant."
"Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person."
"The best jury of your peers that you'll ever find is well, you. Only you know what you're capable of and what you want to be."
"Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity."
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"The world, my friend Govinda, is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment, all sin already carries the divine forgiveness in itself."
"Here in this endless and gleaming wildernessI was removed farther than ever from the world of men --And I never saw so close and so clearlyThe image in the mirror of my own soul."
"To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness."
"Muoth was right. On growing old, one becomes more contented than in one's youth, which I will not therefore revile, for in all my dreams I hear my youth like a wonderful song which now sounds more harmonious than it did in reality, and even sweeter."
"It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is."
"Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it."
"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity."
"All the girls I had ever loved were mine. Each gave me what she alone had to give and to each I gave what she alone knew how to take."
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