All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it? - I don't know. ― Osamu Dazai

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Your greatest self has been waiting your whole life; don't make it wait any longer. ― Steve Maraboli

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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man. -Diogenes

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Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don't know how lucky you are ― Rick Riordan

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He spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it ― Nouwen Henri J. M.

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It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by then I was too famous. —Robert Benchley

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A neoliberal disaster is one who generates a mass incarceration regime, who deregulates banks and markets, who promotes chaos of regime change in Libya, supports military coups in Honduras, undermines some of the magnificent efforts in Haiti of working people, and so forth. - Cornel West

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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. ― Henry David Thoreau

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We all have negative thoughts now and then, but we can choose not to dwell there and not to let them control us. ― Roy T. Bennett

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When I discover who I am, I’ll be free. ― Ralph Ellison

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