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"So the fact that I'm me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent."
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"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your soul."

"When you are dead you are independent, when you are alive your always dependent. It really doesn't matter are you there or there there is somebody above you, always!"

"Self- reliance is the greatest of all virtues my friend."

"Never let a day be your control factor."

"The dream is yours. why are you asking others to validate or nourish it? Your journey must be self-propelled. It must be fueled from within."

"Dependency on stuff, on people and on things is one of the greatest things that could kill."

"Self-confident people don't make their self-esteem, self-image, happiness, or self-confidence dependent on another person's approval, validation, or acceptance."

"Every nation, every woman and every man must work out their own salvation."

"The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has-from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness."

"There are people who like to be alone without feeling lonely at all."
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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."

"It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the appropriate point in a conversation to say goodbye."

"One other thing I learned from working in a company was that the majority of people in the world have no problem following orders. They're actually happy to be told what to do. They might complain, but that's not how they really feel. They just grumble out of habit. If you told them to think for themselves, and make their own decisions and take responsibility for them, they'd be clueless."

"I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind."

"There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say; two, tell her you like what she's wearing; and three, treat her to really good food...If you do all that and still don't get the results you want, better give up."

"There are symbolic dreams-dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities-realities that symbolize a dream."

"Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive."
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