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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside.
- Audre Lorde
The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
- Ayn Rand
The great thing about fashion is that you can create a very unique version of yourself to display to the world.
- Rain Dove
Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.
- George Eliot
Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the whole life its tributary.
- George Eliot
Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all self-dependence is vain. It is only by connecting with Jesus through faith that the sinner becomes a hopeful, believing child of God.
- Ellen White
The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others.
- St. John Chrysostom
The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
- Publilius Syrus
If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
- St. Augustine
Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self, even to the contempt of God; the heavenly by the love of God, even to the contempt of self.
- St. Augustine
Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.
- St. Augustine