I almost always urge people to write in the first person. … Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. - William Zinsser

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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. ― Epictetus

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It is easier to imagine the death of one person than that of a hundred or a thousand... Multiplied, suffering becomes abstract. It is not easy to be moved by abstract things.

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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. ― Epictetus

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Perhaps, if you knew then what you know now you would have done it differently. You are a different person today. Forgive yourself, and move on. ― Germany Kent

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You wouldn't believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it.

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All my songs could speak about the same person in different situations. -Karol G

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A person hears only what they understand. ― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. ― Epictetus

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good. ― Ann Landers

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