Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar
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  1. This above all: to thine own self be true. - William Shakespeare

  2. What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me. - Helen Keller

  3. One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error. - Hermann Hesse

  4. Byron: The luxuries of this place have made me soft. The metal point's gone from my pen, there's nothing left but the feather. Gutman: That may be true. But what can you do about it? Byron: Make a departure. Gutman: From yourself? Byron: From my... - Tennessee Williams

  5. Most people spend their whole lives waging war–against people they don't even know. And against themselves, whom they know least of all." from BETWEEN TWO DESERTS - Germaine Shames

More Quotes By Pindar
  1. * Pindar, a Thebian Greek wrote (circa 350 B.C.E.) War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.

  2. Creatures of a day. What is someone? What is no one? Man is the dream of a shadow.

  3. Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.

  4. Steer your boat with justice: forge A tongue on truth's anvil.

  5. There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand they strain into the future hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.

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