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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you…
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and…
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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything…
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school,…
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw…
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice…
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in,…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses.
— Basil Hume
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But the point is, now, at this moment, or any moment, we're only cross-sections of our real selves. What we really are…
— J. B. Priestley
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God allows and at times causes us to go through the kinds of circumstances that strip away all falsehood and leave us…
— Erwin McManus
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May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are.
— Carol Emshwiller
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Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
— Krishna Das
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We camouflage our true being before others to protect ourselves against criticism or rejection. This protection comes at a steep price... we…
— Sidney Jourard
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We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
— Thomas Merton
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I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I…
— Maya Angelou
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It is in pains that we have the closest contact with our real selves.
— Terry Mark
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Many people go from one thing to another searching for happiness But with each new venture they find themselves more confused and…
— Nate
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