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If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterAnd treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the will which says to them: 'Hold on! ' If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! .Rudyard Kipling
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.Michel De Montaigne
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.Marcus Aurelius
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Everything started as nothing.Auliq Ice
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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.Marcus Aurelius
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As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are - what others say is irrelevant.Nic Sheff
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Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?Brigham Young
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In yourself right now is all the place you've got.Flannery OConnor
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But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one has to act in this way in order to save this world, she neither noticed nor cared that all the people around her thought she was insane.Kathy Acker
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.Bernard M. Baruch
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Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.Thomas Jefferson
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When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.Lao Tzu
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‎Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses, cuz we were born this way bitch!Lady Gaga
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I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appointsRalph Waldo Emerson