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Anais Nin Writer, Diarist

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"The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us."

Favors Patterns Society

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Will Smith Actor, Producer, Rapper

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"I believe that I can create whatever I want to create. If I can put my head on it right, study it, learn the patterns, and - it's hard to put into words, it's real metaphysical, esoteric nonsense, but I feel very strongly that we are who we choose to be."

Believe Real Patterns

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss, And is a pattern of celestial peace."

Marriage Patterns Bliss

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Tony Robbins Author, Life Coach

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"Self-awareness is one of the rarest of human commodities. I don't mean self-consciousn ess where you're limiting and evaluating yourself. I mean being aware of your own patterns."

Mean Self Patterns

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Gabrielle Bernstein Author, Speaker

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"If you stay in that new flow of positive behavior, it's hard to revert back to old patterns. But if you do fall off, just forgive yourself, recover quickly, and get right back on."

Fall Forgiving Patterns

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Merton Miller Economist

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"I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any."

Class Data Patterns

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Muhammad Ali Boxer, Activist

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"I've never really resented hard work because I've always liked it. Up every morning for roadwork. Going to the gymnasium every day at 12 o'clock. I never change my pattern."

Morning Hard Work Patterns

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Louise Hay Author, Motivational Speaker

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"I accept perfect health as the natural state of my being. I now consciously release any mental patterns within me that could express as dis-ease in any way. Perfect health is my Divine right, and I claim it now."

Perfect Patterns Divine Right

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Daisaku Ikeda Buddhist Leader, Author

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"Happiness does not exist as an isolated quality, nor does it conform to a single fixed pattern. Happiness is something that breathes and lives in the relationships between one person and another."

Doe Quality Patterns

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author

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"The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same patterns that are also in you, but that you are unable or unwilling to detect within yourself."

Identity Patterns Particular

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Abbott Lawrence Lowell Educator, Author

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"All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry."

May Patterns Over You

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Eleanor Brown Author

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"We wear our names heavily. And though we have tried to escape their influence, they have seeped into us, and we find ourselves living their patterns again and again."

Names Influence Patterns

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Bill Hicks Comedian, Writer

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"Billy Ray Cyrus does not smoke. Michael Bolton doesn't...Paula Abdul doesn't...there does seem to be a pattern."

Doe Patterns Rays

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Bruce Lee Martial Artist, Actor, Director

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"True observation begins when devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system."

Expression Patterns Freedom Of Expression

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William Blake Poet, Painter

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"Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality."

Men Real Patterns

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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright

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"History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern."

Self May Patterns

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Stephen Covey Author, Speaker

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"Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness and trust-based relationships."

Self Patterns Effectiveness

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Rollo May Psychologist, Author

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"A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence."

World Giving Patterns

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Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author

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"Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern."

Long Easy Patterns

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist

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"The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary."

Reality Literature Patterns

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