To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

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One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

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To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

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One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.

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Accept yourself. Love yourself just as you are. Your finest work, your best moments, your joy, peace, and healing come when you love yourself. You give a great gift to the world when you do that. You give others permission to do the same: to love themselves. Revel in self love. Roll in it. Bask in it, as you would the sunshine.

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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.

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You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. — Dr. Seuss

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It is only when we take chances that our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk we need to take is to become honest. — Walter Anderson

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There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.

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