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"Do not allow yourself to be pulled into the role of embracing victimship as some sort of badge of honor to wear or flash around at any opportunity."
Stephen Richards
"Do not allow yourself to be pulled into the role of embracing victimship as some sort of badge of honor to wear or flash around at any opportunity."
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"Personal and private and public and professional lives are blended.Separating them is what makes a fraud, hypocrite, alter ego."
Richie Norton
"Personal and private and public and professional lives are blended.Separating them is what makes a fraud, hypocrite, alter ego."
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"The largest uniqueness of yours is where you are special and differ from others."
Sunday Adelaja
"The largest uniqueness of yours is where you are special and differ from others."
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"Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping."
Nicholas Sparks
"Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping."
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"Understanding and developing your true identity gives you intrinsic value and should impact your focus."
Sunday Adelaja
"Understanding and developing your true identity gives you intrinsic value and should impact your focus."
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"When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed."
Sarah Dessen
"When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed."
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"Know all the paths, but walk on your path! Be original!"
Mehmet Murat ildan
"Know all the paths, but walk on your path! Be original!"
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"They can't denied who I am."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"They can't denied who I am."
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"Christians, who do not know the purpose of their salvation, are actually just mediocre people."
Sunday Adelaja
"Christians, who do not know the purpose of their salvation, are actually just mediocre people."
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"You do not need to proof your significance."
Sunday Adelaja
"You do not need to proof your significance."
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"You need to find your gift, something that differs you from others."
Sunday Adelaja
"You need to find your gift, something that differs you from others."
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"If you don't have your own identity, you will adopt the brand of another."
Sunday Adelaja
"If you don't have your own identity, you will adopt the brand of another."
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"In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be - and thus the world is merely composed of actors."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be - and thus the world is merely composed of actors."
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"Do you really want people to like you for something that you're not? It takes a lot of energy to pretend to be someone else for the sake of pleasing others."
Susan C. Young
"Do you really want people to like you for something that you're not? It takes a lot of energy to pretend to be someone else for the sake of pleasing others."
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"What is inherent inside you is your uniqueness and peculiarity."
Sunday Adelaja
"What is inherent inside you is your uniqueness and peculiarity."
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"You are person with a goal."
Sunday Adelaja
"You are person with a goal."
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"Without accepting ourselves, we try to meet requirements of society and do everything to be accepted."
Sunday Adelaja
"Without accepting ourselves, we try to meet requirements of society and do everything to be accepted."
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"Freedom is being whole on my own and not needing somebody else to complete me."
Christina Engela
"Freedom is being whole on my own and not needing somebody else to complete me."
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"Your mindset brings together your attitude, perceptions, experience, interpretations, opinions, beliefs, values, and understanding to determine how you think, act, walk, talk, behave, and engage."
Susan C. Young
"Your mindset brings together your attitude, perceptions, experience, interpretations, opinions, beliefs, values, and understanding to determine how you think, act, walk, talk, behave, and engage."
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"No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self."
Abhijit Naskar
"No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self."
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"You can never know who you really are or what you can do until you discover yourself."
Sunday Adelaja
"You can never know who you really are or what you can do until you discover yourself."
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"A Christian must worship the Self as Christ, not Christ as Christ. A Muslim must worship the Self as Mohammed, not Mohammed as Mohammed. A Hindu must worship the Self as Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna."
Abhijit Naskar
"A Christian must worship the Self as Christ, not Christ as Christ. A Muslim must worship the Self as Mohammed, not Mohammed as Mohammed. A Hindu must worship the Self as Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna."
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"No man was born empty, every man was born with a worth."
Sunday Adelaja
"No man was born empty, every man was born with a worth."
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"The complex called the feeling of guilt does not let us accept ourselves the way we are created."
Sunday Adelaja
"The complex called the feeling of guilt does not let us accept ourselves the way we are created."
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"You are a unique individual with your own special features that you need to carry on your life mission."
Sunday Adelaja
"You are a unique individual with your own special features that you need to carry on your life mission."
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"And whatever troubled him and showed in his face might have been the same old trouble - the problem of occupying space in the world and having a name people could call you by, being somebody they thought they could know."
Aldous Huxley
"And whatever troubled him and showed in his face might have been the same old trouble - the problem of occupying space in the world and having a name people could call you by, being somebody they thought they could know."
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"I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent."
Veronica Roth
"I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent."
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"You are not your mistakes and your mistakes are not you."
Bryant McGill
"You are not your mistakes and your mistakes are not you."
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"It is inevitable that being unaware of the purpose for it is inevitable that being unaware of the purpose for your life, you will not be able to recover from being abandoned by your wife or husband."
Sunday Adelaja
"It is inevitable that being unaware of the purpose for it is inevitable that being unaware of the purpose for your life, you will not be able to recover from being abandoned by your wife or husband."
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"When we do not know our true identity as powerful creators, we are susceptible to being used and manipulated."
Bryant McGill
"When we do not know our true identity as powerful creators, we are susceptible to being used and manipulated."
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"The deeper reality is that I'm not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I'm certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel? There is almost certainly a constructed schism between (a) how I feel, and (b) how I think I feel. There's probably a third level, too-how I want to think I feel."
Chuck Klosterman
"The deeper reality is that I'm not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I'm certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel? There is almost certainly a constructed schism between (a) how I feel, and (b) how I think I feel. There's probably a third level, too-how I want to think I feel."
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"Your gift is not what you do but what you really are."
Sunday Adelaja
"Your gift is not what you do but what you really are."
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"Man is the carrier of God's image."
Sunday Adelaja
"Man is the carrier of God's image."
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"You become what you think, not what others think of you."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"You become what you think, not what others think of you."
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"Mislike me not for my complexion,The shadowed livery of the burnished sun,To whom I am a neighbor and near bred.Bring me the fairest creature northward born,Where Phoebus' fire scarce thaws the icicles,And let us make incision for your loveTo prove whose blood is reddest, his or mine."
William Shakespeare
"Mislike me not for my complexion,The shadowed livery of the burnished sun,To whom I am a neighbor and near bred.Bring me the fairest creature northward born,Where Phoebus' fire scarce thaws the icicles,And let us make incision for your loveTo prove whose blood is reddest, his or mine."
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"You are the author of your own destiny, write yourself into history books."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"You are the author of your own destiny, write yourself into history books."
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"Homosexuality is immutable, irreversible and nonpathological."
Abhijit Naskar
"Homosexuality is immutable, irreversible and nonpathological."
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"You do not belong to yourself, you belong to God."
Sunday Adelaja
"You do not belong to yourself, you belong to God."
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"He who says that someone isn't himself is a victim of statistics."
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"He who says that someone isn't himself is a victim of statistics."
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"If I don't know who I am apart from everyone else, I probably need to spend some time apart from everyone else."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"If I don't know who I am apart from everyone else, I probably need to spend some time apart from everyone else."
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"But the princess had never seen the beautiful expression of her eyes; the expression that came into them when she was not thinking of herself. As is the case with everyone, her face assumed an affected, unnatural, ugly expression as soon as she looked in the looking glass."
Leo Tolstoy
"But the princess had never seen the beautiful expression of her eyes; the expression that came into them when she was not thinking of herself. As is the case with everyone, her face assumed an affected, unnatural, ugly expression as soon as she looked in the looking glass."
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"Female castration results in concentration of her feelings upon her male companion, and her impotence in confrontations with her own kind. Because all her love is guided by the search for security, if not for her offspring then for her crippled and fearful self, she cannot expect to find it in her own kind, whom she knows to be weak and unsuitable."
Germaine Greer
"Female castration results in concentration of her feelings upon her male companion, and her impotence in confrontations with her own kind. Because all her love is guided by the search for security, if not for her offspring then for her crippled and fearful self, she cannot expect to find it in her own kind, whom she knows to be weak and unsuitable."
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"People try to build their identity around external things such as appearance and the clothes at the expense of neglecting the inner values of who they really are."
Sunday Adelaja
"People try to build their identity around external things such as appearance and the clothes at the expense of neglecting the inner values of who they really are."
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"She is a good girl," Park said. "You don't even know her." His dad was standing, pushing Park toward the door. "Go," he said sternly. "Go play basketball or something.""Good girls don't dress like boys," his mother said."
Rainbow Rowell
"She is a good girl," Park said. "You don't even know her." His dad was standing, pushing Park toward the door. "Go," he said sternly. "Go play basketball or something.""Good girls don't dress like boys," his mother said."
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"knowledge of who we are prevents us from being distracted by the demands of our surroundings."
Sunday Adelaja
"knowledge of who we are prevents us from being distracted by the demands of our surroundings."
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"Life can be generous, but leaves us with a trilemma: How can we reconcile three diverse features: 'I', 'me' and the 'others'. Since the "I entails what I want; the "me what others expect of me and the "others what others themselves want. The bridges between "individuality", "surroundings and "otherness" can be abysmal and very often waiting to be restored. ['I am on my own side, but I can listen ']"
Erik Pevernagie
"Life can be generous, but leaves us with a trilemma: How can we reconcile three diverse features: 'I', 'me' and the 'others'. Since the "I entails what I want; the "me what others expect of me and the "others what others themselves want. The bridges between "individuality", "surroundings and "otherness" can be abysmal and very often waiting to be restored. ['I am on my own side, but I can listen ']"
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"Never allow anyone or anything to demise or dull your truest identity. Hurtful words and harsh judgments have no impact when your north star, your guiding light, shines from the center of your chest and beats from your own truest heart."
Toni Sorenson
"Never allow anyone or anything to demise or dull your truest identity. Hurtful words and harsh judgments have no impact when your north star, your guiding light, shines from the center of your chest and beats from your own truest heart."
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"How can you stand apart from the herd? How can you start to be noticed so people will remember you? How can you be heard above the noise? "What is your personal branding that makes you special, unique, individual, and memorable?"
Susan C. Young
"How can you stand apart from the herd? How can you start to be noticed so people will remember you? How can you be heard above the noise? "What is your personal branding that makes you special, unique, individual, and memorable?"
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"An ID number is only there to 'identify' human beings. Use it to assume people's intellect or wisdom at your own risk."
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"An ID number is only there to 'identify' human beings. Use it to assume people's intellect or wisdom at your own risk."
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"It is better to be small in flesh but large in spirit."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"It is better to be small in flesh but large in spirit."
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