Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

 

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Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that’s a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.
― Rob Reiner

 

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You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.
― Marilyn Monroe

 

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Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.
― Allen Ginsberg

 

 

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To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
― e.e. cummings

 

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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
― Maya Angelou

 

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The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience 

 

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Knowing others is intelligence; 
knowing yourself is true wisdom. 
Mastering others is strength;  
mastering yourself is true power. 
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching 

 

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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
― Friedrich Nietzsche  

 

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The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
― Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women

 

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