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- The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
- 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
- Self-reverence, self knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
- Lord Tennyson
- 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
- If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.
- Sidney Madwed
- Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
- Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
- George Gurdjieff
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