"It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to realize his own true worth."

Belonging, Worth, Existence, Purpose, Self

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"It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to realize his own true worth."

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"I give her the only honest and true answer I have.'You're where I want to be."

Simone Elkeles, American Author

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"People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up."

Gayle Forman, American Journalist

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"Where we sail and anchor our heart fill up the multitude odyssey paving to the coming home of our soul."

Angelica Hopes, Swiss Author

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"I told the students that they were at the age when they might begin to choose places that would sustain them the rest of their lives, that places were more reliable than human beings, and often much longer-lasting, and I asked them where they felt at home."

Rebecca Solnit, American Actress

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"She wasn't chaos. She was more of a slow burn that caught in your heart... and then you had no choice but to engulf her all at once. She was home."

Alfa H, American Author

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"My guess is that the Jonathan would be as out of place in England or Kazakhstan, the native ground of its ancestors, as I would be in Russia, the native ground of my own. The arrow of natural history won't be reversed: by now the Jonathan's as much an American as I am."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

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"I travel to know where I fit into the world, and where I don't."

Carew Papritz, American Author

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"We all seek that somewhere to which we belong and that somewhere is surely not here!"

Jasleen Kaur Gumber, Indian Writer

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"Not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

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"Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too."

Time

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

Man

"The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up."

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"If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life."

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"Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan."

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"A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up."

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"Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal."

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"Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory."

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"We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time through some experience that we have of our companion or through some remark that he passes he stands for a moment close to us as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is."

Excellence

"Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me."

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