"Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences."

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"If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the painful process of finding it."

David Levithan, American Author

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"But for better or worse, I am not motivated by kindness."

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"We must design how we wish to be perceived, and then we must work even harder to continuously recreate and re-evaluate that perception."

Chris Murray, Irish Author

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"You have your whole life to become what you wish to become. As long as we know where we are going, we can prepare ourselves for the journey. That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever."

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"Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Cut the connection between your clothes and your beliefs, because clothes will not make you something, it won't make you honest or dishonest, good or bad! Your essence will not change because of what you wear!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Self, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Inspirational

"We must carefully cultivate the voice that speaks to us because an internal voice is the ultimate narrator of our charming and delightful personal story or the documentarian of our tragic and disgraceful plotlines. Stories that we tell ourselves become our functional reality, which format structures the concourse of the nested emotional control panel that guides and girds us through the din of the present."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

Self, Accountability, Growth, Introspection

"When we run away from something. We're usually running away from ourselves."

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

Self, Running, Escape, Truth

"One day you will wake up, you will see with clear sight all that has held you back; you will feel lighter because you finally accept who you are. You will shine with flawless beauty because your happiness comes from the purity of your heart and one day I hope you realise all of this, before it's too late; because darling, if we spent our years nurturing the best of ourselves, heaven would be felt on earth."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

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"If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the painful process of finding it."

"But for better or worse, I am not motivated by kindness."

"We must design how we wish to be perceived, and then we must work even harder to continuously recreate and re-evaluate that perception."

"You have your whole life to become what you wish to become. As long as we know where we are going, we can prepare ourselves for the journey. That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever."

"Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners."

"Cut the connection between your clothes and your beliefs, because clothes will not make you something, it won't make you honest or dishonest, good or bad! Your essence will not change because of what you wear!"

"Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention."

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"We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind."

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"Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home."

"Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday."

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