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"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
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"But you have to sacrifice yourself for YOURSELF, too."
"My worth changes with every choice I make and every action I take. I can choose myself to uselessness or to being valuable."
"To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other."
"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."
"People cannot turn you into a foot mat if you clearly know your true self-worth."
"We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young -- not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age -- and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words."
"Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person."
"Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents."
"We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better."
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"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
"So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled."
"It is under all circumstances an advantage to be in full possession of one's personality, otherwise the repressed elements will only crop up as a hindrance elsewhere, not just at some unimportant point, but at the very spot where we are most sensitive. If people can be educated to see the shadow-side of their nature clearly, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more self-knowledge can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures."
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
"Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence."
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