“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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“they can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.”

― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free; and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed? why does my blood rush into a hell of tumult at a few words?”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.”

― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, still, alone, more fragile, but with more vitality, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, the smell and taste...”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“what fire does not destroy, it hardens.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Since I won't let critics seal my fate, they keep hollering I'm full of hate. But they don't really hurt me none 'cause I'm doing good and having fun.”

― Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly

“Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“He wants to show me that his love for me is not to interfere with his freedom.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein—more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“To see a thing uncolored by one's own personal preferences and desires is to see it in its own pristine simplicity.”

― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

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