Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.

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In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.

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For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life. ― Aeschylus

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The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

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The future belongs to the competent. Get good, get better, be the best! – Brian Tracy

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It's not just about being better. It's about being different. You need to give people a reason to choose your business. - Tom Abbott

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Done is better than perfect. - Sheryl Sandberg

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Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.

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It's better to understand something than to memorize something.

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Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things grow by God's Law out of the smallest. But to live your life you must discipline it. You must not fritter it away in "fair purpose, erring act, inconstant will" but make your thoughts, your acts, all work to the same end and that end, not self but God. That is what we call character.

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