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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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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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Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. ↗

— James Joyce

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None but ourselves can free our minds. ↗

— Bob Marley

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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

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I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. ↗

— Mother Teresa

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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

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