Joseph Campbell
Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
"Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer."
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Wayne Dyer
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it."
Cary Grant
Actor
"I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me."
Anton Chekhov
Playwright, Short Story Writer
"Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be."
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"You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy."
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"Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it."
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"Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially."
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"In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence."
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"I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection."
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"Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it's because no matter what, I AM a SURVIVOR, NOT a victim."
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"Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves."
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"Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person."
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"Grasp the subject, the words will follow."
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"What you become directly influences what you get."
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"Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory."
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"God has entrusted me with myself."
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"First you fuel the desire, then the desire will fuel you."
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"To have more than you've got, become more than you are."
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"you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry"
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"Done is better than perfect."
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"People can cry much easier than they can change."
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"Love is energy of life."
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"You cannot fix what you will not face."
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"He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees."
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