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George Eliot

"What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self."

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"What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self."

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"Too often we let others stamp a price tag on us, and we accept their appraisal of our worth, forgetting we are in fact priceless."

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"You want to be a river? This is not necessary because you can be a river without being a river; just flow in your life, this is what the rivers are doing, they are flowing! Remember, you can be anything without giving up yourself. Never wish to be something else, always be yourself! You want to be a Sun? Just give warmth to everyone with kind words!"

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"The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin."

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"It is much more important to be oneself than anything else."

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"Are you what others say and think you are? Or are you who you are regardless of what others say and think?"

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"I have a funny side. I have a soft and sympathetic side. I have a serious side, and a seriously romantic side. I have lots of sides; it's the main course I haven't quite figured out."

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"Your EGO feeds on the volume of the mental clutter, the greater the intensity the more crystallized is your EGO. Man dominates and exherts his mental superiority over others. Be Aware! Stop Mental Clutter, Kill EGO, Be YOU!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Think... of the world which you carry within yourself... and set it above everything that you notice about you. Your inmost happening is worth your whole love, that is what you must somehow work at, and not loose too much time and too much courage in explaining your attitude to people."

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Amber Hurdle

"The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure."

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"But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you've made it this far, please remember: you will never be subjected to the temptation of feeling you must forgive, a man, as a woman."

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"Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope."
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"Whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same."
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"Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them."
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"Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music."
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"Men's men: be they gentle or simple they're much of a muchness."
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"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."
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"What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?"
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"It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every rational satisfaction your nature that you deny now will assault like a savage appetite."
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"It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self-never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted."
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