Associate with noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone.
Rely upon your own energies, and so not wait for, or depend on other people.

Thomas Davidson

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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

Marcus Aurelius

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The anarch nurtures no expectations. He stakes on no one but himself. Basically, people remain pied pipers, whatever melodies they play to introduce themselves. And as for the rats - that is a chapter unto itself.

Ernst Jünger

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Remember, this is important: Never trust that you will be saved by anyone.

Amanda Boyden

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I'd rather die my way than live yours.

Lauren Oliver

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Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Epicurus

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Here must thou be, O man,
Strength to thyself — no helper hast thou here —
Here keepest thou thy individual state:
No other can divide with thee this work,
No secondary hand can intervene
To fashion this ability. 'Tis thine,
The prime and vital principle is thine
In the recesses of thy nature, far
From any reach of outward fellowship,
Else 'tis not thine at all.

William Wordsworth

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The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

Louis Simpson

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We are so accustomed to the comforts of "I cannot", "I do not want to" and "it is too difficult" that we forget to realize when we stop doing things for ourselves and expect others to dance around us, we are not achieving greatness. We have made ourselves weak.

Pandora Poikilos

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