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- Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.
- Richard Bach
- The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
- Thomas Aquinas
- The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)
- Analysis and synthesis ordinarily clarify matters for us about as much as taking a Swiss watch apart and dumping its wheels, springs, hands, threads, pivots, screws and gears into a layman's hands for reassembling, clarifies a watch to a layman.
- Author Unknown
- Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.
- Author Unknown
- A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
- Mark Rutherford
- Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
- When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- Neurotics chase after people and jobs they don't really want, just to prove that they are like everybody else - which is the last thing they really want.
- Author Unknown
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