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"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
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"[Fireheart] was interrupted by a screech from Cloudtail. 'Fireheart! Fireheart, Brightpaw isn't dead!'Fireheart spun around and raced across the clearing to crouch beside Brightpaw. Her white - and - ginger fur, which, she had always kept so neatly groomed, was spiky with drying blood. On one side of her face the fur was torn away, and there was blood where her eye should have been. One ear had been shredded, and there were huge claw marks scored across her muzzle."

"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."

"YOU are a signature to be dealt with and inspire, only when you move in to your authenticity."

"But you have to sacrifice yourself for YOURSELF, too."

"There is no denial that the lack of self-love conditions many to feel unimportant or irrelevant."

"Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents."

"Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person."

"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."

"People cannot turn you into a foot mat if you clearly know your true self-worth."
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"Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally short-sighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations..."

"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it."

"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."

"When, for instance, a highly esteemed professor in his seventies abandons his family and runs off with a young red-headed actress, we know that the gods have claimed another victim."

"The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual."

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."

"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."

"Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious."

"If it be true that there can be no metaphysics transcending human reason, it is no less true that there can be no empirical knowledge that is not already caught and limited by the a priori structure of cognition."

"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."
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