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I am who I am firstly because of genetics, and, running a very close second, because of choices: ones my parents made, such as choosing to emigrate to America; ones their parents made, like my Papa Butler opting to ignore medical advice and instead warming my mum in the oven to keep her alive; and very conscious ones that I've made for myself. ↗

— John Barrowman

#personal-growth

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#growth #personal-growth

[People] ask themselves, what is suitable for my position? What is usually done by persons of my station and percuniary circumstances? Or (worse still) what is usually done by persons of a station and circumstances superior to mine? I do not mean that they choose what is customary in preference to what suits their own inclinations. It does not occur to them to have any inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only among things that are commonly done: peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes: until by dint of not following their own nature they have no nature to follow: their human capacities are withered and starved: they become incapable of any strong wishes or native pleasures, and are generally without either opinions or feelings of home growth, or properly their own. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#philosophy #run-on-sentence-award #equality

Her stare fixed me. Without rancour and without regret; without triumph and without evil; as Desdemona once looked back on Venice. On the incomprehension, the baffled rage of Venice. I had taken myself to be in some way the traitor Iago punished, in an unwritten sixth act. Chained in hell. But I was also Venice; the state left behind; the thing journeyed from. ↗

— John Fowles

#distance #othello #outgrowing-others #personal-growth #reference-to-shakespeare

Igniting your creative potentials opens you up to new learnings and insights. ↗

— Deborah Day

#personal-growth #personal-growth

By 2000, Americans had built almost twice as much retail space per citizen as any other country in the world: over nineteen square feet per person. Most of it was in malls. ↗

— Dolores Hayden

#personal-growth

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#fantasy-fiction #game-of-thrones #medieval #fantasy-fiction

Suatu saat, mencintai adalah memutar hari tanpa seseorang yang kau cintai. Sebab, dengan atau tanpa seseorang yang kamu kasihi, hidup harus tetap dijalani. ↗

— Tasaro G.K.

#hidup #kasih #mencintai #cinta

he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#mind #search #food

People who think they know everything are annoying to those of us who do. ↗

— Jill Shalvis

#humor