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"I outwitted those that deliberately suppressed me not by retaliating, but by minding my own business, continuing the self-discovery journey and reinventing myself."
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"Your main target should be to find and develop your own unique individuality and not let your focus be sidetracked and drift to external things."
"I told myself all sorts of lies, standing there at the bar, but I could not move. And this was partly because I knew that it did not really matter anymore; it did not even matter if I never spoke to Giovanni again; for they had become visible, as visible as the wafers on the shirt of the flaming princess, they stormed all over me, my awakening, my insistent possibilities."
"I am a free soul, singing my heart out by myself no matter where I go and I call strangers my friends because I learn things and find ways to fit them into my own world. I hear what people say, rearrange it, take away and tear apart until it finds value in my reality and there I make it work. I find spaces in between the cracks and cuts where it feels empty and there I make it work."
"If you try to cultivate your talents in someone else's shadow, they might wilt."
"Work harder on improving yourself than on trying to forge better relationships."
"The farm is a base of operations"a stronghold. You can withdraw into yourself there. Solitude for reflection is an essential ingredient in self-development. I think a person has to be withdrawn into himself to gather inspiration so that he is somebody when he comes out again among folks"when he "comes to market' with himself. He learns that he's got to be almost wastefully alone."
"You are not in any way aware that you are already victorious, that life has happened to you. You are already a winner and nothing more is possible, all that could happen has happened to you. You are already an emperor, and there is no other kingdom to be won. But you have not recognized it, you have not known the beauty of the life that has already happened to you. You have not known the silence, the peace, the bliss that is already there.And because you are not aware of the inner kingdom, you always feel that something more is needed, some victory, to prove that you are not a beggar."
"Betrayals that make your soul scream so loud you wonder why no one else hears it. In the end, we are all alone in that private hell. But life isn't about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting the past. It's about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes. Yes, people disappoint us all the time. But the harshest lessons come when we disappoint ourselves. When we put our trust and our hearts into the hands of the wrong person and they do us wrong. And while we may hate them for what they did, the one we hate most is ourself for allowing them into our private circle. How could I have been so stupid? How could I let them deceive me?"
"Everything can be achieved through gradual steps " one small step at a time: overcoming fears, fulfilling dreams... anything you wish to be different from the way it is."
"There are some people who may be good yet toxic for you, so be careful of who you surround yourself with."
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"Accept loyalty gratefully, and accept betrayal with a smile, knowing that it teaches you life lessons."
"It's okay for someone to tell me who they think I am, but it's not okay when they try to impose that idea on me."
"Any empathic person who knows how valuable time is will think twice before wasting another person's time, because losing time is losing a part of your life."
"It is what you do about the fear you feel that sets you apart, to be a coward or a courageous person."
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