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• Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Topics in Compromise

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• What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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• The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

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• A man can’t make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

  Helen Keller

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• Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.

  Janis Joplin

  Topics in Compromise

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• What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let him regard no good as solid but that which is in his nature, and which must grow out of him as long as he exists. The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let him scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

  Archibald MacLeish

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• Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.

  Bette Midler

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• Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

  Margaret Mead

  Topics in Uncategorized

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• To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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• Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

  Albert Camus

  Topics in Friendship, Honesty

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• Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.

  Harriet Lerner

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• But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

  Albert Camus

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• My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Attitude, Humanity

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• There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life’s solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Change/Growth, Problem Solving

• I am large. I contain multitudes.

  Walt Whitman

  Tags in Diversity, Integrity/Individuality

• Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you’re sabotaging a self that is not really you.

  Armand DeMele

  Topics in Failure

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• Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you’re in a crowd, you’ll always have some clean air to breathe.

  Julia Child

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• The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the State but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime. . .

  Albert Einstein

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