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Letter "M" » myself
«I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.»
«I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.»
Author: Nikki Giovanni
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Poet)
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About:
Life
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Keywords:
about,
Being Myself,
could,
failure,
forgive,
imagine,
I Tried,
mind,
myself,
really,
think,
To do,
tried,
try
«I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat»
Author: Rebecca West
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Writer)
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Keywords:
able,
call,
Call Me,
differentiate,
differentiated,
differentiates,
doormat,
doormats,
express,
feminism,
feminist,
find out,
myself,
People Express,
precisely,
sentiments,
The Express
«I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.»
«I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
Being Myself,
crowded,
crowding,
crowd out,
cushion,
cushioned,
cushions,
myself,
pumpkin,
pumpkins,
rather,
sit,
sit by,
velvet,
velvets
«I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(
Poet)
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Keywords:
and then,
asexual,
black,
blacker,
Black a,
black people,
Black woman,
by the way,
capable,
caught,
continue,
difficulty,
end man,
faces,
fat,
fats,
fatter,
fattest,
forgive,
forgiveness,
For every,
glory,
glorying,
hell,
hold on,
human being,
inevitable,
injured,
injuring,
in the end,
known,
larger,
large white,
learned,
liking,
mirror,
mistake,
mistakes,
most unattractive,
myself,
one of the largest,
our own,
overcome,
poor,
Real Men,
rough,
rougher,
roughest,
roughs,
sees,
self taught,
sexual,
society,
sorrier,
sorriest,
sorry,
sure,
Teach,
The Blacks,
The End,
The Mirror,
the threat of,
thin,
think about,
thinned,
thinner,
thinnest,
thinning,
thins,
Threats,
unattractive,
white,
whited,
whiter,
white woman,
whiting,
years,
young
«I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions»
Author: Bertrand Russell
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Logician,
Philosopher)
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Keywords:
am,
any,
ashamed,
Being Myself,
changed,
degree,
Having,
in degree,
I am,
myself,
opinions,
to that degree
«I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
about,
Being Myself,
both,
commit,
Friends,
heaven,
Heaven and Hell,
hell,
like,
myself,
other places,
places,
see,
This is the Place
«I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
all,
all the,
arguments,
Being Myself,
Do,
for the time being,
his times,
In These Times,
like,
myself,
Now is the Time,
of all time,
Out of Time,
prevents,
saved up,
saves,
save up,
talking,
Talk to Her,
their talk,
this talk,
time,
Time After Time,
time out,
To do,
well timed|
Occasions:
T-Shirt
«I should stop myself from dying if a good joke or a good idea occurred to me»
Author: Voltaire
(
Philosopher,
Writer)
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Keywords:
Do or Die,
dying,
good idea,
idea,
in jokes,
joke,
joked,
myself,
occurred,
occurring,
stop,
take a joke