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The Art and Science of Dumpster Diving

by John Hoffman

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""If you can't control yourself, how can you hope to have control of the world around you? What good will it do to increase your wealth by 25% if you waste it and need more? If your kids hate you? If your wife leaves you?..."" — Jan 17, 2014 03:15AM

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Maven’s Quotes

“At the end of constantly feeling the need to prove something is usually where we find our greatest freedom.”
― Andrena Sawyer

tags: confidence, freedom, freedom-in-christ, knowing-yourself, nothing-to-prove, quiet-confidence, self-assurance, self-esteem, self-worth

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“You can't concern yourself with that. Certainly it would be wonderful if we all knew who we were. But that knowledge doesn't come from the outside, but from the inside.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: jem-carstairs, knowing-yourself

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“The best knowledge is knowing yourself and your inner being.”
― Debasish Mridha

tags: debasish-mridha, debasish-mridha-md, inspirational-quotes, know-your-inner-being, knowing-yourself, knowledge, philosophy, quotes

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“When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.”
― Adrienne Rich

tags: education, identity, psychologych, sense-of-self, teaching

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“Don't waste your time trying to provide people with proof of deceit, in order to keep their love, win their love or salvage their respect for you. The truth is this: If they care they will go out of their way to learn the truth. If they don't then they really don't value you as a human being. The moment you have to sell people on who you are is the moment you let yourself believe that every good thing you have ever done or accomplished was invisible to the world. And, it is not!”
― Shannon L. Alder