“Be Not the Slave of Your Own Past”
“Sometimes, I sit alone under the stars
and think of the galaxies inside my
heart, and truly wonder if anyone will
ever want to make sense of all that
I am.” (Testy McTesterson)
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“You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.” (Robert Brault, Round Up the Usual Subjects)
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“Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.” (Dag Hammarskjold)
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“Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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“We are constantly invited to be who we are.” (Henry David Thoreau)
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“Respect yourself and others will respect you.” (Confucius, Sayings of Confucius)
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“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” (George Bernard Shaw)
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