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Then the cow asked:"What is a mirror?""It is a hole in the wall," said the cat. "You look in it, and...

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You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold.

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Max LucadoCure for the Common Life: Living in Your Sweet Spot

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listeni...

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You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.

There comes a moment when the image of our life parts company with the life itself, stands free, and...

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I wondered, as I wondered so often when I was that age, who /I/ was, and what exactly was looking at...

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

Every time I saw Lacey, she'd gained five more pounds. She was turning into the kind of obese girl w...

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It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That ...

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for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world...

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We take off into the cosmos, ready for anything: for solitude, for hardship, for exhaustion, death. ...

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It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame ...

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I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.

[H]is mouth pursed, but pursed in American, more generous than English pursing, ready for broader vo...

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Trust not yourself; but your defects to know,Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane...

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I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, fuck that, I'm Harry Potter.

There was something stubborn in me that didn't want to lose weight to attract a man. If the right ma...

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The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.

I never used to realize it, I guess. I try and play it along and just not make trouble for people. P...

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Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life...

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...but doth not the person who expends vast sums in the furniture of his house or the ornaments of h...

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That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for w...

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It all comes back. Perhaps it is difficult to see the value in having one's self back in that kind o...

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Joan DidionSlouching Towards Bethlehem

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you ...

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you reall...

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Appearing nude on film was not easy when I was twenty-six in Body Heat; it was even harder when I wa...

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Kathleen TurnerSend Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life