"I am not now That which I have been."

Self, Identity, Change, Existence

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"If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the painful process of finding it."

David Levithan, American Author

Self, Truth, Self-Discovery, Pain, Process

"But for better or worse, I am not motivated by kindness."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

Self, Kindness, Motivational, Truth, Life

"We must design how we wish to be perceived, and then we must work even harder to continuously recreate and re-evaluate that perception."

Chris Murray, Irish Author

Self, Perception, Design, Work, Identity

"You have your whole life to become what you wish to become. As long as we know where we are going, we can prepare ourselves for the journey. That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever."

Chris Murray, Irish Author

Self, Growth, Journey, Potential

"Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Self, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"Cut the connection between your clothes and your beliefs, because clothes will not make you something, it won't make you honest or dishonest, good or bad! Your essence will not change because of what you wear!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Self, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Inspirational

"We must carefully cultivate the voice that speaks to us because an internal voice is the ultimate narrator of our charming and delightful personal story or the documentarian of our tragic and disgraceful plotlines. Stories that we tell ourselves become our functional reality, which format structures the concourse of the nested emotional control panel that guides and girds us through the din of the present."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Self, Mind, Wisdom, Growth

"Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

Self, Accountability, Growth, Introspection

"When we run away from something. We're usually running away from ourselves."

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

Self, Running, Escape, Truth

"One day you will wake up, you will see with clear sight all that has held you back; you will feel lighter because you finally accept who you are. You will shine with flawless beauty because your happiness comes from the purity of your heart and one day I hope you realise all of this, before it's too late; because darling, if we spent our years nurturing the best of ourselves, heaven would be felt on earth."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

Self, Acceptance, Happiness, Beauty

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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."

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"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life."

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"My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then."

Mind

"For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear."

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"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."

Architecture

"I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all."

Love

"To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all."

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"If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the painful process of finding it."

"But for better or worse, I am not motivated by kindness."

"We must design how we wish to be perceived, and then we must work even harder to continuously recreate and re-evaluate that perception."

"You have your whole life to become what you wish to become. As long as we know where we are going, we can prepare ourselves for the journey. That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever."

"Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners."

"Cut the connection between your clothes and your beliefs, because clothes will not make you something, it won't make you honest or dishonest, good or bad! Your essence will not change because of what you wear!"

"Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention."

"When we run away from something. We're usually running away from ourselves."

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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."

"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life."

"My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then."

"Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell!"

"Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger."

"Soprano basso even the contralto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto."

"For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear."

"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."

"I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all."

"To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all."