"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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"It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around."
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"To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state."
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"Knowledge is knowing as little as possible."
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"There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it."
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"I must forgive without noise or fuss."
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"I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are."
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"Independnce comes from you knowing who you are and you being happy with yourself."
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"Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards."
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