“In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.”
- Horace Mann
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Sherecita "Be yourself, everyone else is taken" O.W
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is as important as the one we pass on ourselves.”
- Dr. Nathaniel Branden
Jun 27, 07:14AM PDT | 2 cheers | 1 comment
Sherecita "Be yourself, everyone else is taken" O.W
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury
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Sherecita "Be yourself, everyone else is taken" O.W
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
- Edith Sitwell
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Sherecita "Be yourself, everyone else is taken" O.W
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
- Andre Malraux
PD: I’m not sure I fully understood this one XD
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Sherecita "Be yourself, everyone else is taken" O.W
After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
-Cato the Elder
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Sherecita "Be yourself, everyone else is taken" O.W
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
– Krishnamurti
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Sherecita "Be yourself, everyone else is taken" O.W
I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.
- Demetri Martin
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Sherecita "Be yourself, everyone else is taken" O.W
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
- Samuel Johnson
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