I can’t say that there is one quote that sums up the complexities of me.
Here are some of my favorites:
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“Happiness is not something ready made…
It comes from your own actions.”
~~Dalai Lama
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“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing at someone else
– you are the one who gets burned.”
~~Buddha
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“Forgiveness is the fragrance
the violet sheds
on the heel that has crushed it.”
~~Mark Twain
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“Faith sees a beautiful blossom in a bulb,
a lovely garden in a seed,
and a giant oak in an acorn.”
~~William Arthur Ward
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“Man has always sacrificed truth
to his vanity, comfort and advantage.
He lives… by make-believe.”
~~W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up
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“The greatest friend of truth is time,
her greatest enemy is prejudice,
and her constant companion humility.”
~~Charles Caleb Colton
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“This above all: to thine own self be true;
and it must follow, as the night the day,
that thou canst not then be false to any man.”
~~William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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“Resolve to be thyself;
and know that he who finds himself,
loses his misery.”
~~Matthew Arnold
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“Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find
all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.”
~~Rumi
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“When we allow ourselves to become vulnerable,
to take chances, and to risk our pride,
that is when we find our own glory.”
~~Richard Corman
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