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"I feel so often that depression is a signal of more that wants to be expressed within you. There is an innate impulse in everyone to express more of who they truly are, and you get depressed when you don't feel you're able to do that."

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Edgar Dale Educator, Author
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"One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to believe in it for himself. We want censorship to protect someone else— the young, the unstable, the suggestible, the stupid. I have never heard of anyone who wanted a film or speaker banned because otherwise he himself might be harmed."

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Emma Watson Actress, Activist
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"I like men with quick wit, good conversation and a great sense of humour. I love banter. I want a man to like me for me - I want him to be authentic."

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Epictetus Philosopher
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"Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen."

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Epictetus Philosopher
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"Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave."

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Esther Hicks Author, Speaker
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"If something you want is slow to come to you, it can be for only one reason: You are spending more time focused upon its absence than you are about its presence. If"

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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known."

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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body."

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Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician
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"The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires"

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Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker
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"We must find out for ourselves that inside us is a god or goddess in embryo that wants to be born so that we can express our divinity."

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Theologian
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"The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words."

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Dolly Parton Singer, Songwriter, Actress
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"I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody."

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Dolly Parton Singer, Songwriter, Actress
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"When I sit back in my rocking chair someday, I want to be able to say I've done it all."

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Donald Miller Author
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"There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way."

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