"God has entrusted me with myself."

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William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"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!"

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"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

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

Frank Herbert, American Writer

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"When you give your mind, body, and heart the message that you are worth the effort of being conscious, miraculous things start to happen."

Amy Leigh Mercree, American Author

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"Look well into thyself there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there."

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"Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents."

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"Don't put your purpose in one place and expect to see progress made somewhere else."

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"Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?"

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"He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk."

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"He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not but rejoices in what he has."

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"We are not troubled by things but by the opinion which we have of things."

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"It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life."

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"Ruin and recovery are both from within."

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"On the occasion of every accident that befalls you ... inquire what power you have for turning it to use."

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"If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on is way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you?"

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