The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

Carlos Castaneda

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Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

Maya Angelou

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Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery.
None but ourselves can free our minds.

Bob Marley

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When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

Lao Tzu

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Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Mae West

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To find yourself, think for yourself.

Socrates

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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I don't care what is written," Meyer Landsman says. "I don't care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son's throat for the sake of a hare-brained idea. I don't care about red heifers and patriarchs and locusts. A bunch of old bones in the sand. My homeland is in my hat. It's in my ex-wife's tote bag.

Michael Chabon

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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You are constantly invited to be what you are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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