This above all: to thine own self be true.
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William Shakespeare
What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.
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Helen Keller
One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.
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Hermann Hesse
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...
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Tennessee Williams
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
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Germaine Shames
More Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.
Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.
One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects... with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being...
