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“There is no reality except the one contained within us.”
“God creates the animals man creates himself.”
“Every man is his own ancestor and every man his own heir. He devises his own future and he inherits his own past.”
“Our awesome responsibility to ourselves to our children and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.”
“Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment heredity and movements and changes in the world about him then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life int...”
“We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
“I woman give birth: and this time to myself.”
“I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers but you...”
“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
“I would not sit waiting for some value tomorrow nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime. ... I would make something happen.”
“Man is not the creature of circumstances circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents and man is more powerful than matter.”
“Be yourself and think for yourself and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you.”
“He who has no opinion of his own but depends upon the opinion and taste of others is a slave.”
“Think wrongly if you please but in all cases think for yourself.”
“We are taught you must blame your father your sisters your brothers the school the teachers-you can blame anyone but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault because ...”
“Discontent is want of self-discipline it is infirmity of will.”
“Happiness is a conscious choice not an automatic response.”
“The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.”
“To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy or to pursue any excessive desire diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.”
“Felicity felicity ... is quaffed out of a golden cup ... the flavour is with you alone and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.”
