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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “You are constantly invited to be what you are.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: self-reliance
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    Sarah Dessen
    “Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
    tags: self-reliance
    550 likes

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    Katharine Hepburn
    “I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.”
    ― Katharine Hepburn
    tags: gender-roles, independence, self-reliance
    475 likes

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    Carlos Castaneda
    “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
    tags: happiness, self-determination, self-reliance
    538 likes

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    Thomas Szasz
    “The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.”
    ― Thomas Stephen Szasz
    tags: autonomy, independence, self-reliance
    280 likes

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  • #6
    “you don't have to worry about burning bridges, if you're building your own”
    ― Kerry E. Wagner
    tags: accountability, inspirational, ownership, resourcefulness, responsibility, self-help, self-reliance
    256 likes

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  • #7
    Pandora Poikilos
    “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, Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out
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  • #8
    Amanda Boyden
    “Remember, this is important: Never trust that you will be saved by anyone.”
    ― Amanda Boyden, Pretty Little Dirty
    tags: self-reliance
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    Catherynne M. Valente
    “She must protect herself. There would be no one to do it for her. A plan started to prick up its ears inside her, slowly, but getting stronger.”
    ― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
    tags: planning, self-preservation, self-reliance
    41 likes

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    Sarah Dessen
    “Sure, it sucked to be lost, but I'd long ago realized I preferred it to depending on anyone else to get me where I needed to go. That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened- good, bad, or anywhere in between- it was always, if nothing else, all your own.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
    tags: independence, self-reliance, solitude
    179 likes

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  • #11
    Glennon Doyle
    “I surrendered myself to the cages of others' expectations, cultural mandates and institutional allegiances. Until I buried who I was in order to become what I should be. I lost myself when I learned how to please.”
    ― Glennon Doyle, Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life
    tags: expectations-of-others, expectations-of-people, judgemental-people, losing-yourself, people-pleasing, pleasing, pleasing-people, should, society, who-am-i
    13 likes

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  • #12
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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  • #13
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
    101562 likes

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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130141 likes

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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer , Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
    tags: psychology
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality
    tags: animal-rights, animals, barbarism, compassion, cruelty, morality
    1179 likes

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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • #20
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays
    tags: audiences, folly, fools, humor, readership, writing
    1015 likes



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