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«Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.»
«If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.»
«Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.»
Author: Dogen | Keywords: enlightenment, of your own
«Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.»
Author: Harold Coffin | About: Envy | Keywords: blessings, counting, envy, of your own
«Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own»
«Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.»
«Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.»
«Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.»
«Criticizing another's garden doesn't keep the weeds out of your own»
«. . . it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself; it is needful that you frame the season of your own harvest.»

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