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"Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another."
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"Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."
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Personal Development
"This is my life... my story... my book. I will no longer let anyone else write it, nor will I apologize for the edits I make."
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Personal Development
"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."
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Personal Development
"If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled."
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"If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves."
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"It is much easier to concentrate the mind on external things, than to concentrate on the mind itself. For example, a Neuroscientist can be the smartest man (or woman) on earth in his understanding of the human mind. He may know all the neurochemical changes underlying an outrageous behavior of a person. But when he gets mad himself, very little of his own scientific intellect would actually come in handy for him to control his rage. The virtue of self-control is a skill, which requires practice, regardless of all the neurobiological expertise in the world."
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"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
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"Do your emotions influence You or are You influenced by your emotions?"
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"Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity."
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"We often bow down to our feelings without realizing how fickle and unreliable they are."
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"The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book."
Criticism
"I get angry about things, then go on and work."
Life
"I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that."
Feminism
"I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got."
Awareness
"Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous."
Art
"I stood there a long while, staring at that tree. It looked so strongSo beautiful. Hurt right down the middleBut alive and well. Cee touched my shoulderLightly. Frank? Yes? Come on, brother. Let's go home."
Life
"Criticism as a form of knowledge is capable of robbing literature not only of its own implicit and explicit ideology but of its ideas as well; it can dismiss the difficult, arduous work writers do to make an art that becomes and remains part of and significant within a human landscape."
Art
"You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfuckin' life!"
Life
"Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all."
Love
"Dominion won by fear and secured by fear was still sweeter than any that could be got another way."
Politics
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