"You are not what you want, you are what you have been made to be."

Identity, Self, Life, Creation

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"You are not what you want, you are what you have been made to be."

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"I am not the river I am the net."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

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"I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"What's in a name? The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"The sooner you answer the question, "who am I" the more effective and successful life you will have."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"I hadn't understood at the time. If sinners were so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why.Without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my pastwas my life."

Janet Fitch, American Author

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"Do not allow yourself to be pulled into the role of embracing victimship as some sort of badge of honor to wear or flash around at any opportunity."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"You couldn't escape the pointy hat, though. There was nothing magical about a pointy hat except that it said that the woman underneath it was a witch. People paid attention to a pointy hat."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Forms come and go. You, the quantum non-entity behind your human identity, comes nor goes."

Fakeer Ishavardas, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Fall in love with your uniqueness because that's what makes your presence on earth a very special one."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

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"A full fridge is like an empty one: What am I going to eat?"

Food

"Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies."

Deception

"To faith doubt is a sin, to science a virtue, to love a cancer and to life, suicide."

Philosophy

"They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves."

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"When a man marries, it's proof he can't govern his life. He needs a governess."

Marriage

"People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth."

Community

"Who can resist when destiny calls?"

Destiny

"Truth is like beauty, it lies in the mind of the beholder."

Beauty

"She has the care of a mother, the love of a sister, a prostitute in bed. Who is she?"

Relationship

"Don't go into the business of pleasing people. You can't please everybody. Simply do your best at what you do."

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