"Stop being who you were and become who you are."
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"Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life."
"Power is not given to you. You have to take it."
"Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence."
"One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity."
"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living."
"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right."
"I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself."
"If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm."
"Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two."
"Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit."
"Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated."
"Happiness never becomes a habit."
"I've never dropped anyone I believed in."
"I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else."
"I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about."
"My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!"
"I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes."
"The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story."
"Be willing to take the first step, no matter how small it is. Concentrate on the fact that you are willing to learn. Absolute miracles will happen."