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    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: identity
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    Lao Tzu
    “Knowing others is intelligence;
    knowing yourself is true wisdom.
    Mastering others is strength;
    mastering yourself is true power.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: wisdom
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    Virginia Woolf
    “The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: accomplishments, attitude, authentic-self, confidence, empowerment, fear, goals, insecurity, integrity, motivation, powerful, self-abuse, self-acceptance, self-hatred, self-love, true-self
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “The only real conflict you will ever have in your life won’t be with others, but with yourself.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: anger, awareness, boundaries, choices, confidence, conflict, dignity, fights, hatred, letting-it-go, mad, moving-on, offended, reflection, self-esteem, self-love, self-realization, self-reflection, staying-positive, stayingpositiveu-com
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Abrir los ojos es lo único necesario. El corazón miente y la mente engaña, pero los ojos ven. Mira con los ojos. Escucha con los oídos. Saborea con la boca. Huele con la nariz. Siente con la piel. Y sólo luego piensa, y así sabrás la verdad.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That is why I read so much.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
    tags: beauty, delusion, goodness, lies, self-deception, wisdom
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Семейное счастие
    tags: books, conduct-of-life, contentment, country, happiness, life, music, nature, neighborliness, rest, usefulness, work
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
    tags: conscience, majority, right-and-wrong, truth, wrong
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: life, regrets
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: spirituality
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “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, The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: essay, inspirational, lecture, nonfiction, philosophy, self-reliance, social-commentary, transcendentalism
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Envy is ignorance,
    Imitation is Suicide.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.”
    ― Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelms
    tags: life-lessons, nietzsche, noble, right, wrong
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    John Adams
    “Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

    {Letter to his son and 6th US president, John Quincy Adams, November 13 1816}”
    ― John Adams , The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
    tags: dogmatism, john-quincy-adams, superstition
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    Criss Jami
    “Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: ambition, business, calling, career, commitment, determination, dreams, entrepreneur, faith, genius, hobbies, insanity, living, passion, patience, peace, perfection, perfectionist, perseverance, persistence, power, priorities, risk, sanity, strategy, strength, success
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    Eoin Colfer
    “Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, The Time Paradox
    tags: genius
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
    tags: confidence
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    “You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”
    ― Olin Miller
    tags: confidence, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, others, think, worry
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: confidence, eccentricity, philosophy
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    Carlos Castaneda
    “We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
    ― Carlos Castaneda
    tags: confidence, inspirational
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
    tags: confidence, inspirational, pride
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    “Don't agree and believe that success comes free... Gold on the floor is a lie! You must dig deep and then you will reap big!”
    ― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
    tags: agree, agreement, believe, dig-deep, dig-deeper, disagree, disagreement, floor, food-for-thought, free, gold, hard-work, hard-worker, hard-working, israelmore-ayivor, lie, passion, passionate, success, work-hard
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    Marie Curie
    “Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
    ― Marie Curie
    tags: curiousity, gossip, humanity, ideas, intelligence
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
    tags: happiness, intelligence
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  • #31
    “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
    ― Walter H. Cottingham
    tags: ambition, intelligence, misattributed-salvador-dali, paraphrased
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