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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: masks, pretending, pretense
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    May Sarton
    “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
    ― May Sarton
    tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self
    9087 likes

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    Toni Morrison
    “Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
    ― Toni Morrison, Beloved
    tags: freedom, self
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
    tags: birth, identity, life, self
    2571 likes

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    Katharine Hepburn
    “We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.”
    ― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life
    tags: change, life, self
    2068 likes

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    Stephen Fry
    “You are who you are when nobody's watching.”
    ― Stephen Fry
    tags: people, self
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “Don't think about making life better for other people who don't even deserve you, rather, focus on making your life the best, for yourself and those who love you.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspiring, life, life-and-living, living-life, self
    937 likes

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  • #8
    Fernando Pessoa
    “My past is everything I failed to be.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: failure, past, self, time
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  • #9
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: inner-peace, self
    672 likes

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    Melissa de la Cruz
    “You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.”
    ― Melissa de la Cruz, The Van Alen Legacy
    tags: happiness, happy, heartbreak, hurt, love, self
    675 likes

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  • #11
    Mary Anne Radmacher
    “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”
    ― mary anne radmacher
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  • #12
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “You are -- your life, and nothing else.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
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    Edward Everett Hale
    “I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”
    ― Edward Everett Hale
    tags: ability, accomplishment, confidence, determination, self, self-esteem
    816 likes

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  • #14
    “We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.”
    ― André Berthiaume
    tags: masks, self
    571 likes

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    Suzanne Collins
    “As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “A friend is a gift you give yourself.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
    tags: friend, gift, give, self
    373 likes

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  • #17
    “There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.”
    ― Drew Barrymore
    tags: discovery, self
    264 likes

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  • #18
    Anaïs Nin
    “I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: secrets, self, transformation
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    Emma Donoghue
    “If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.”
    ― Emma Donoghue, Room
    tags: cake, child, humor, self
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    Benjamin Spock
    “Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.”
    ― Dr. Benjamin Spock
    tags: class, police, police-brutality, racism
    96 likes

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  • #21
    Malcolm X
    “If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.”
    ― Malcom X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    tags: force, police-brutality, power, resistance, solidarity, violence
    1024 likes

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  • #22
    Woody Guthrie
    “I know the police cause you trouble
    They cause trouble everywhere
    But when you die and go to heaven
    You find no policeman there”
    ― Woody Guthrie
    tags: government, hobos, police-brutality, social-commentary
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    John W. Whitehead
    “[W]hile the use of non-lethal weapons such as tasers and LEDIs may not necessarily reduce the number of civilian casualties, they have been largely accepted as the humane alternative to deadly force because they make the use of force appear far less dramatic and violent than it has in the past.

    Contrast, for instance, the image of police officers beating Rodney King with billy clubs as opposed to police officers continually shocking a person with a taser. Both are severe forms of abuse. However, because the act of pushing a button is far less dramatic and visually arresting than swinging a billy club, it can come across as much more humane to the general public. This, of course, draws much less media coverage and, thus, less bad public relations for the police.”
    ― John W. Whitehead, A Government Of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State
    tags: injustice, non-lethal-weapons, perspective, police, police-brutality, taser, violence
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  • #24
    Aeschylus
    “Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
    falls drop by drop upon the heart
    until, in our own despair, against our will,
    comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
    ― Aeschylus
    tags: brutal-comforting
    851 likes

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  • #25
    Jarod Kintz
    “To Do Today, 1/17/08
    1. Sit and think
    2. Reach enlightenment
    3. Feed the cats”
    ― Jarod Kintz, I Should Have Renamed This
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  • #26
    “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
    257 likes

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  • #27
    Steve Maraboli
    “The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: accountability, doing-right, life, motivational, responsibility
    487 likes

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    David Brin
    “When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.”
    ― David Brin
    tags: accountability, judgement, judging, privacy
    222 likes

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  • #29
    Thomas Paine
    “A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.”
    ― Thomas Paine
    tags: accountability, trust
    239 likes

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  • #30
    Simone Weil
    “We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.”
    ― Simone Weil
    tags: accountability, courage, honesty, inspiration, status-quo, truth
    155 likes



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