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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

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Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

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But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

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One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind. ↗

— Robert Collier

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Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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