There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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| — | Aldous Huxley (via hannabis) |
With the realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world. According to my own experience, self-confidence is very important. That sort of confidence is not a blind one; it is an awareness of ones own potential. On that basis, human beings can transform themselves by increasing the good qualities and reducing the negative qualities.
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| — | Dalai Lama (via ashweegasm) |
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.
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| — | Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods (via khadeejafinds) |
I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths that others have created about me, as myths are created about everyone swept up in the turbulent and distorting maelstrom of celebrity in our culture.
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| — | Marlon Brando (via lifestylesoftherichandinfamous) |
When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do
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| — | William Blake (Born November 28, 1757) |
