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- Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.
- African Proverb
- Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
- Quintus Ennius
- Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
- Janis Joplin (1943 - 1970)
- Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
- Arapaho Proverb
- Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
- G. Stanley Hall (1844 - 1924)
- Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.
- Julia T. Alvarez
- Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.
- Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
- The bone-chilling scream split the warm summer night in two, the first half being before the scream when it was fairly balmy and calm and pleasant for those who hadn't heard the scream at all, but not calm or balmy or even very nice for those who did hear the scream, discounting the little period of time during the actual scream itself when your ears might have been hearing it but your brain wasn't reacting yet to let you know.
- Patricia E. Presutti, 1986 winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
- Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), Defence of Hedonism
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