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"The people around you are mirrors, I think. You see yourself reflected in their eyes. If the mirror is true, and smooth, you see your true self. That's how you learn who you are."
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"For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power."
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Personal Development
"Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still."
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Personal Development
"Your mind is an entire world, your heart is an entire cosmos, and your soul is an entire universe."
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Personal Development
"To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence."
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Personal Development
"But mostly I just think I'am not the best person to demonstrate all the goodness humanity has to offer. I don't want you to be too disappointed when you realize that."
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Personal Development
"Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene."
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Personal Development
"Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority."
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Personal Development
"Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
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Personal Development
"Are you like, a crazy person?I'm quite sure they will say so."
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Personal Development
"Never focus your attention on what the world has to say about you. Rather turn your focus inside and listen to what your inner voice has to say to you."
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"There's no self-expression or joy in these joints-- no springboard to self-discovery, or adventure, like any decent night out involving men, women, alcohol, and taking your clothes off. Why do many people have a gut reaction to strip clubs? Because inside them, no one is having fun."
Expression
"Lines and greyness are nature's way of telling you not to fuck with someone - the equivalent of yellow and black lines on a wasp, or the markings on the back of a black widow spider."
Aging
"The actual handbag is neither here nor there-- it's what you keep in it that's the most important thing."
Values
"For a woman, every outfit is a hopeful spell, cast to influence the outcome of the day. An act of trying to predict your fate, like looking at your horoscope."
Expression
"Strip clubs let everyone down. Men and women approach their very worst here."
Morality
"The scabs feel like I have a message on my arm. Something that needs to be read, urgently, by someone. It was only years later that I realized the person I had written that message to- the person who wasn't listening- was me. I was the one who should have been staring at that arm, and working out what the red hieroglyphics meant. Had I translated them, I would have realized those red lines read: 'Never feel this bad again. Never come back to this place, where only a knife will do. Live a gentle and kind life. Don't do things that make you want to hurt yourself. Whatever you do, every day, remember this- then steer away from here."
Recovery
"After all, you can argue " argue until you cry " about whatmodern, codified misogyny is; but straight-up ungentlemanliness,of the kind his mother would clatter the back of his head for, isinarguable. It doesn't need to be a 'man vs woman' thing. It's just atiff between The Guys.Seeing the whole world as 'The Guys' is important. The ideathat we're all, at the end of the day, just a bunch of well-meaningschlumps, trying to get along, is the basic alpha and omega of myworld view. I'm neither 'pro-women' nor 'antimen'. I'm just 'Thumbsup for the six billion'."
Humanity
"You stop talking about things when you've worked them out. You're no longer an observer but a participant. You're too busy for this bullshit."
Growth
"A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen instead."
Libraries
"The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry."
Bias
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