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- I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
- William Blake (1757 - 1827)
- They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
- Louise Erdrich
- Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
- One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
- If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
- Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)
- A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.
- Kurt Lewin (1890 - 1947)
- Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
- Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
- Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
- Evelyn Underhill
- After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), "Music at Night", 1931
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