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"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."

— André Gide

"The world will ask who you are and if you do not know, the world will tell you."

— Carl Jung

"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?"

— Edgar Allan Poe

"You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another."

— Ernest Hemingway

"People in their right minds never take pride in their talents."

— Harper Lee

"Then something woke up inside him and he wished to go and see the great mountains and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls and explore the caves and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick."

— J. R. R. Tolkien

"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It is a waste to ask, 'What is the meaning of life?' when you are the answer."

— Joseph Campbell

"Don't be sorry, be different."

— Proverb

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."

— The Buddha

"Someone once told me the definition of hell: the last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become."

"This above all: to thine own self be true."

— William Shakespeare

"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love."

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Although dreams are hard to interpret, they never lie."

— Jordan Peterson

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."

— Jim Wright

"All men are the same except for their belief in their own selves."

— Miyamoto Musashi

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

"Consciousness and nothing both exist at the same time which is one of the paradoxes of life."

"Consciousness came from the earth and it will return to the earth."

"Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

— Gloria Steinem

"Geniuses are the luckiest people among mortals, because what they have to do is what they want to do."

— W. H. Auden

"I am convinced that life is ten per cent of what happens to me and ninety per cent of how I react to it."

— Charles Swindoll

"I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself."

— Leo Tolstoy

"I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself."

— Aldous Huxley

"I'm not an intellectual, I'm a romantic, a dreamer."

— Jordan Peterson

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."

— Maya Angelou

"If you have no desires, you will be able to keep yourself calm."

— Xiao Chuang You Ji

"If you want to preserve your good name, do not praise yourself and do not so much as allow others to praise you."

— Leo Tolstoy

"It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city."

— The Bible

"Live your life in such a way that you neither hide nor have a wish to display your life to people."

— Leo Tolstoy

"Know thyself."

— Socrates

"No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life."

— Jordan Peterson

"Once you label me you negate me."

— Søren Kierkegaard

"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known."

— Chuck Palahniuk

"Only in our dreams are we free."

— Terry Pratchett

"Self is who you are, who you were and everything you can become."

"Self-belief is the key to all success."

— Proverb

"The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone."

— John Locke

"The mind can grasp everything but it cannot grasp itself. The knife can cut everything but it cannot cut itself."

— Alan Watts

"There is no opponent. There is only the choice to grow or wither."

"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."

— Albert Einstein

"This is the stuff dreams are made of."

— William Shakespeare

"Therefore, there is no point complaining, because there is no external factor that determines what we feel, what we love or who we are."

— Jean-Paul Sartre

"Travel far enough, you meet yourself."

— David Mitchell

"Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny."

— Frank Outlaw

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

— Will Durant

"We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are."

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

— Henry S. Haskins

"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it."

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"Whatever we see out there in the world is but a reflection of what is in there within our mind."

— Mary Doria Russell

"When we talk about our dreams coming true, we're talking about our ambitions. Dreaming is ultimately about awakening. The unconscious, from which dreams bubble up, seems to contain an image of the way you're supposed to be."

"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."

— Henry Ford

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

— Viktor E. Frankl

"What one can be, one must be."

— Abraham Maslow