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"The trip doesn't exist that can set you beyond the reach of cravings, fits of temper, or fears, so long as you carry the sources of your troubles about with you, those troubles will continue to harass and plague you wherever you wander on land or on sea. Does it surprise you that running away doesn't do you any good? The things you're running away from are with you all the time."
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"If you try to cultivate your talents in someone else's shadow, they might wilt."
"When somebody criticise you, be happy and thankful because they have given you an opportunity to think about the matter more precisely and more detailed!"
"They say you can't change the past despite the fact it never stops changing you " but that doesn't mean we have to sit back and take it. It may change us, but we have ultimate control over how we let it."
"See yourself through your mind's eye being who you want to be, having what you want to have, and doing what you want to do."
"It's not about being ready or feeling prepared all the time, sometimes you just have to do what you know you have to do. And when you do " you will always see that you're more ready and more prepared than you realize. Never doubt yourself or you may never do anything of significance."
"Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new."
"The most important relationship in your life should be your relationship with yourself."
"Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you."
"If you can listen to yourself and obey yourself more, then you have increased your chances for attaining personal effectiveness."
"I wish [that when] I was 12 years old I'd been able to watch a video of my favourite actress explaining in such an intellectual, beautiful, poignant way the definition of feminism - I would have understood it and then earlier on in my life I would have proudly claimed that I was a feminist, because I would have understood what the word means."
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"I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?"
"And so there is no reason for you to think that any man has lived long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles, he has not lived long " he has existed long. For what if you should think that man had had a long voyage who had been caught by a fierce storm as soon as he left harbour, and, swept hither and thither by a succession of winds that raged from different quarters, had been driven in a circle around the same course? Not much voyaging did he have, but much tossing about."
"True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man to enjoy the present without anxious dependence on the future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have which is abundantly sufficient."
"It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so, we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully."
"Those who wish their virtue to be advertised are not striving for virtue but for renown. Are you not willing to be just without being renowned? Nay, indeed you must often be just and be at the same time disgraced. And then, if you are wise, let ill repute, well won, be a delight. Farewell."
"Errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical."
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