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“True belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.” – Brene Brown
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“I thought we went along paths – but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.” – CS Lewis
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“Virtue is being completely you. The virtue of a horse is to run fast. The virtue of a car is to drive well. The virtue of a woman is to woman well. Identify what is quintessentially you and develop the virtue of being THAT. That is what it is to be virtuous. We associate it with self control and purity–because that’s part of what makes man more than an animal. But self control isn’t the only thing that makes you virtuous. Think of a virtuouso on the violin. Their virtue is how well they play. Be good at being you.” – Eve Speer Garcia
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“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
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“Stop wishing. Start doing.” – Your Future Self
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“To thine own self be true. Unless you’re a stupid jerk.” – Shaun Roundy
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The man in whom Tao Acts without impediment Harms no other being By his actions Yet he does not know himself To be “kind,” to be “gentle.” The man in whom Tao Acts without impediment Does not bother with his own interests And does not despise Others who do. He does not struggle to make money And does not make a virtue of poverty. He goes his way Without relying on others And does not pride himself On walking alone. While he does not follow the crowd He won’t complain of those who do. Rank and reward Make no appeal to him; Disgrace and shame Do not deter him. He is not always looking For right and wrong Always deciding “Yes” or “No.” The ancients said, therefore: “The man of Tao Remains unknown Perfect virtue Produces nothing ‘No-Self’ Is ‘True-Self.’ And the greatest man Is Nobody.” “The Way of Chuang Tzu” by Thomas Merton
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“You don’t need to know where you’re going to be able to get there. Just take that next step and trust yourself.” – Claire Zammit
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“He who binds to himself a joy/ Does the winged life destroy/ But he who kisses the joy as it flies/ Lives in eternity’s sun rise” – William Blake
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“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you’ll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” – Rudyard Kipling
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“There’s only one way to improve society: present it with a single improved unit: yourself.” – Albert Jay Nock
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“If you talked to your friends the way that you talk to yourself, you wouldn’t have any friends.” – Mike Cernovich
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“Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.” — Fulton J. Sheen
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“If you surround yourself with clowns, don’t be surprised if your life becomes a circus.” – Unknown
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“If you surround yourself with clowns, don’t be surprised if your life becomes a circus.” – Unknown
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“This is the meaning of the Master’s cryptic phrase: ‘Lose yourself…and find yourself.’ Expand your caring to include all carings and you begin to overcome destructive selfishness.” – Truman Madsen
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“Evil people often don’t realize that they’re evil. They don’t recognize what “evil” means. They justify selfish actions as reasonable, and don’t notice or care that they hurt others unnecessarily. A degree of darkness exists in every life, every mind, every heart. Our job is to love, accept, forgive, support, celebrate, delight, and shine so brilliantly that others learn to distinguish the darkness from light.” – Shaun Roundy
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“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.” – Paulo Coelho
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“We fight our most brutal battles entirely within the deepest confines of our own minds in a place where nobody else, however compassionate or well-meaning, can come close to reaching. Friends can cheer you on, people who love you can show their concern and affection constantly…in the end, it doesn’t matter, you’re still alone. If you can’t save yourself, it can’t be saved. I wish I’d realized this sooner, it would’ve saved me years of grief.” – Kirt Manwaring
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“We fight our most brutal battles entirely within the deepest confines of our own minds in a place where nobody else, however compassionate or well-meaning, can come close to reaching. Friends can cheer you on, people who love you can show their concern and affection constantly…in the end, it doesn’t matter, you’re still alone. If you can’t save yourself, it can’t be saved. I wish I’d realized this sooner, it would’ve saved me years of grief.” – Kirt Manwaring
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“Setbacks will happen, disappointments happen, but your dream still exists. Say to yourself, ‘It’s not over until I win! ‘ Never give up on yourself.” – Les Brown
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“I am more afraid that this people have so much confidence in their leaders that they will not inquire for themselves of God whether they are led by him. I am fearful they settle down in a state of blind self security. Let every man and woman know, by the whispering of the Spirit of God to themselves, whether their leaders are walking in the path the Lord dictates, or not.” – Brigham Young
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“The highest level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, self-actualization, is actually connected to the lowest level, group survival. People experience their highest joy in helping their neighbors make it through the day.” – David Brooks
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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” – C.S. Lewis
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“The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become – because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.” – C.S. Lewis
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“[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you.” – C.S. Lewis
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“Character is higher than intellect, and perfect character will be continually rewarded with increased intellect. Thus, our real business on earth is to master self.” – Spencer W. Kimball
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“Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.” – Victor Frankl
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“Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.” ― William Martin,
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“All friendly feelings for others are an extension of a man’s feelings for himself.” – Aristotle
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“Self esteem is when you know you’re okay, and your opinion is the only one that matters.” – Shaun Roundy
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“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“People like to say that everything’s ‘perfect,’ and you look around and see that life is anything but that! But just as a weight bench is perfect for strengthening muscles but too uncomfortable for sleeping or sitting back and watching TV, life provides the resistance you need to learn and grow. You didn’t come here to sit back, relax and feel happy all the time; you came here to grow, and the way to grow is to bravely face the problems before you and improve yourself in the process. Life’s imperfections provide perfect opportunities to build your spiritual muscles.” – Shaun Roundy
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“I define love thus: The will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing ones own or another’s spiritual growth.” – M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled
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“Misery loves [miserable] company. Fill yourself with enough love and light and energy vampires will leave you alone.” – Shaun Roundy
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“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington
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“When you adopt the viewpoint that there is nothing that exists that is not part of you, that there is no one who exists who is not part of you, that any judgment you make is self-judgment, that any criticism you level is self-criticism, you will wisely extend to yourself an unconditional love that will be the light of the world.” – Harry Palmer
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“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.” – Kate Chopin
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“There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self.” – Henri Frederic Amiel
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“The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.” – Rita Mae Brown
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