Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.

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There is no more time to waste. Hours and days evaporate like creeks in the desert. That’s why it’s okay to be cruel to yourself as long as you realize you’re doing it to become better. ― David Goggins

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Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always.

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You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself.- English Proverb

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By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before. — Edwin Elliot

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Never say anything about yourself you don't want to come true

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You willed yourself to where you are today, so will yourself out of it. ― Stephen Richards

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Be yourself everyone else is already taken. ― Oscar Wilde

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To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is no escape. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

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