Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity."
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Knowing Who You Are
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Helen Keller
Author, Activist
"I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God."
Joseph Campbell
Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
"You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules."
Plato
Philosopher
"No man should be angry with what is true."
Rene Descartes
Philosopher, Mathematician
"All is to be doubted."
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"Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier."
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"Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide."
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"God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him."
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"To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops."
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"Authentic freedom is actually the freedom of knowing who you are, why you are here, your purpose in life and where you are going when you leave here."
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"Imagine not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that nothing will destroy you. That you are beyond any feeling, and state. Bigger than. Vaster than. That there is no reason to use drugs because anything a drug could do would pale in comparison to knowing who you are."
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"Action will delineate and define you."
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"The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness."
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"The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self."
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"The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes."
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"The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real."
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"Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them."
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"The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down."
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"It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it."
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"The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention."
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"I think beauty comes from actually knowing who you are. That's real beauty to me."
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"You will be faced with facing all the things in yourself that keep you from knowing who you are, you'll have to stand up to roles and definitions that your family and culture have given you."
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"Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself... The problem is not to blame or explain but to handle the life that arises... If you say no to a single factor in your life, you have unraveled the whole thing... The demon that you swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply."
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"Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason."
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"The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for."
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