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"There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate."
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"Don't ever be afraid to show who you really are, because as long as you are happy with yourself, no one else's opinion matters."
"Nothing could be more wrong than the old cliche that says any religion will do just as long as one is sincere. In no other area of life is there so much error, deception, and charlatanism as in religion."
"Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own."
"You've got to know thyself, date thyself and most importantly be thyself."
"We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained."
"A person lives a false life whenever they are afraid to make contact with his or her authentic self. A sensitive ego " one that protects a person from pain " can also prevent a person from maturing mentally and emotionally by causing a person to distort truths and refuse to admit unpleasant facts."
"There's nothing more beautiful than authenticity. There's nothing stronger than vulnerability. There's no better time than now."
"Authenticity isn't just about saying "this is who I am-it is also about being flexible enough to recognize and appreciate the uniqueness in others-honoring the mutual respect for being authentic and true."
"A human should realize himself and be responsible for himself if he wants to become the true person he is to be."
"To be "great" is an ego goal; to be real is existential."
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"Ashlynn washed her face, put on an apron, and then opened wide the door to her shoe closet. This princess wouldn't care if she wore a burlap sack every day, so long as she had dozens of footwear choices. Today she settled on a pair of scrappy teal wedges and went to start breakfast. Even though her father's grand house came fully stocked with servants, her mother believed in good, solid, character-forming chores. After all, Ashlynn would inherit her mother's story and become the next Cinderella someday, and there would be lots of floors to mop and hearths to sweep her Happily Ever After."
"She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds."
"Hey, times are tough, and thirty gold coins can do a lot of good. But I guess you wouldn't know about needing money, since you grew up like a little princ...'(Rapunzel glares)'Prin... soner. I mean, prisoner! A prisoner in a tower, such a shame, that."
"The woman gestured to a seat and put on a patient face. An impatient sort of patient face, like an impatient face dressing up as a patient one for Halloween."
"Fortune-teller tea. Give it a sip!'The liquid was pink and smelled of strawberries, but when Maddie drank it, the flavor was deep and a little bitter, followed by a sudden burst of sweetness.Her father returned. 'Well?' he asked.'It started out as black licorice and then melted into butterscotch,' she said.'Oh, my girl, the tea is telling you that this is the year to keep your ear to the ground and listen for surprises. Change is coming!'Maddie's stomach was full of thoughts and her head full of butterflies. She checked her watch again. She couldn't wait for it all to begin."
"Jane Austen had created six heroines, each quite different, and that gave Charlotte courage. There wasn't just one kind of woman to be."
"Reading a book is like going on a great journey. You don't know what'll happen, but something is bound to change. And for me, that change has always been good."
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