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“I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?”
“Human beings aren't orchids we must draw something from the soil we grow in.”
“Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.”
“To love others we must first learn to love ourselves.”
“Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.”
“A sobering thought: what if right at this very moment I am living up to my full potential?”
“Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not a sense of humor was provided to console us for what we are.”
“It is the duty of youth to bring its fresh powers to bear on social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should lift the ...”
“I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.”
“A true man never frets about his place in the world but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature and swings there as easily as a star.”
“I long to see everything to know everything to learn everything!”
“My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself afraid of what I think or of my opinions.”
“I needed to find my way to write. I need about six hours of uninterrupted time in order to produce about two hours of writing and when I accepted that and found the way to do it then I was able t...”
“Don't try to teach a whole course in one lesson.”
“When one is pretending the entire body revolts.”
“When you affirm your own Tightness in the universe then you co-operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You being yourself help others be themselves.”
“So prodigal was I of youth Forgetting I was young I worshipped dead men for their strength Forgetting I was strong.”
“Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery because we have ... the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality ... which from time to time reveals itself to be vain ...”
“It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.”
“Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. ... S...”
