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“Remember, self-confidence doesn’t mean you won’t sometimes fail. But you’ll know you can handle challenges and not be crippled by them.”
― Barbara Markway, The Self Confidence Workbook: A Guide to Overcoming Self-Doubt and Improving Self-Esteem

“When you’re feeling overwhelmed by a goal, it helps to remember the adage, “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.”
― Barbara Markway, The Self Confidence Workbook: A Guide to Overcoming Self-Doubt and Improving Self-Esteem

“True self-confidence is part courage, part competence, with a healthy dose of self-compassion mixed in.”
― Barbara Markway, The Self Confidence Workbook: A Guide to Overcoming Self-Doubt and Improving Self-Esteem

“Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear”
― John Milton

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A person hears only what they understand.”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

“I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it”
― Fernando Pessoa

“There is strong shadow where there is much light.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Götz von Berlichingen

“People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.”
― Wolfgang Goethe

“Talent develops in solitude, character develops in the stream of life.”
― Goethe, Schiller, Hebel, et al

“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.”
― Goethe

“When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Mothers are all slightly insane.”
― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“There is always something left to love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“...time was not passing...it was turning in a circle...”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“What does he say?' he asked.
'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.'
'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“Then why do you want to know?"

"Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose