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"Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene."
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"You have to know yourself enough to be able to choose friends that you will be compatible with."
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"No, I'm afraid your overconfidence, as with most young men who dream of becoming successful, can quite quickly become the Achilles' heel of your continued mediocrity."
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"Ego is this this higher conscious concept that we have of ourselves and we feel that we must live by it with a closed mind. We can be Self Aware of this concept or purely just blinded. I think the answer to this problem is being Self Aware and changing our current perception for the better."
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"I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55."
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"The people around you are mirrors, I think. You see yourself reflected in their eyes. If the mirror is true, and smooth, you see your true self. That's how you learn who you are."
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"Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!"
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"Perhaps the most liberating moment in my life was when I realized that my self-loathing was not a product of my inadequacy but, rather, a product of my thoughts."
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"Seeing everything that goes on in your daily life, your daily activities - when you pick up a pen, when you talk, when you go out for a drive or when you are walking alone in the woods - can you with one breath, with one look, know yourself very simply as you are? When you know yourself as you are, then you understand the whole structure of man's endeavour, his deceptions, his hypocrisies, his search. To do this you must be tremendously honest with yourself throughout your being."
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"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
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"Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene."
Self-Awareness

"All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."
Reality

"As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow."
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"Man, an animal that makes bargains."
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"Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping."
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"When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory."
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"The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears."
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"One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do."
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"I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this."
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"People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way."
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