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- I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
- Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
- Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), Letters
- It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged, 1957
- Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.
- Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907
- Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
- Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980
- She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.
- Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988
- The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964
- I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
- Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
- Francois de Fenelon (1651 - 1715)
- If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
- Robert Fritz
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