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- Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
- Geoffrey F. Abert
- Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
- Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)
- The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
- Sir W. Temple
- By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?
- Jackie Mason (1934 - )
- Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.
- Thaddeus Golas
- It is a very serious duty, perhaps of all duties the most serious, to look into one's own character and conduct, and accurately read one's own heart. It is virtually looking into eternity, and all its vast and solemn realities, which must appear delightful or awful, according as the heart appears to be conformed or not conform to God.
- Emmons
- You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.
- Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure"
- For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control.
- Smiles
- Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be facts.
- Author Unknown
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