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- I won't change anything because I think the most important thing is being yourself and that's what I'm going to continue to do.
- Avril Lavigne
- Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self- esteem.
- Dr. Laura Schlessinger
- A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.
- P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), Uneasy Money
- I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
- D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
- Boldness in itself is genius.
- L. Ron Hubbard (1911 - 1986)
- The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
- Frederick Douglass (1817 - 1895)
- No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about himself.
- Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
- No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.
- Anne Rice (1941 - ), "Blood and Gold"
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