Excerpts of Citations
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One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
~George Moore
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
~Anais Nin
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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
~Louisa May Alcott
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If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, ...
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be. Your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
~James Allen
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There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
~Wayne Dyer
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
~John Dewey
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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resi...
~Dan Millman
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The path of personal growth leads upward, through the gauntlet of human experience to the peaks of human potential.
~Dan Millman
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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
~Anais Nin
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Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.
~Anais Nin
from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. III, 1969, January 1944 -
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
~Anais Nin
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If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
~Anais Nin