Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself. - Golda Meir

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You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move. ― George R.R. Martin

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I envied him, the courage to be himself. In public. ― Ruta Sepetys

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It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride. ― John Ruskin

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Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.

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The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. — Dr. Seuss

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An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

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God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing. ― C.S. Lewis

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What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

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Courage is found in unlikely places.

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