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• I didn’t fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience – to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Topics in Goal, Life

  Tags in Self, Hope

• I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

  George Meredith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Expectation, Civilized, Women

• This above all; to thine own self be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Self, Music, Above

• I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life.

  George Armstrong Custer

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Self, War

• In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Self, Depression

• The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

  George Gissing

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Self, Excellent, Books, Reading

• I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Believe, Best, Solution, War
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  The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgement.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Topics in Intelligence

  Tags in Self, Judgement

• A self without a shelf remains cryptic; a home without books naked.

  Leah Price

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Books

• More of me comes out when I improvise.

  Edward Hopper

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Self, Improvise

• I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me – shapes and ideas so near to me – so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t occurred to me to put them down.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Self, Natural, Ideas
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  You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

  David Viscott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Person

• To be one’s self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

  Irving Wallace

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Wrong, Easy

• One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

  G. K. Chesterton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Distant, Giving
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  Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Topics in Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Self, Finding, Creating, Examination

• There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed.

  Peter Sellers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Existing, Examination

• Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy… or they become legend.

  Jim Harrison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Examination

• No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human beast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Examination
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  What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Self, Behind, Examination

• We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

  Albert Camus

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Self, Personality, Examination